Abstract

A research using index methods for assessing the hygiene of removable orthopedic denture splints was carried out. The purpose of the article is to study the evolution of objective methods for assessing the hygienic state of removable dental and complex orthopedic denture splints. A patent and information search was carried out in the databases eLIBRARY, Pub Med, Web of Science and Scopus to achieve this goal. The search for materials from original literary resources was done by keywords. 50 resources were analyzed: 47 Russian and 3 foreign ones. The work presents the analytical review of the issues. The chronological sequence shows the existing methods of index assessment of the hygiene of removable orthopedic denture splints. Their advantages and disadvantages were described. Objective index assessment of the hygienic state of the oral cavity as a whole, removable dental and maxillofacial orthopedic denture splints in particular is quite relevant. A quick, convenient, objective and accurate assessment of the hygienic state of the oral cavity in general and removable orthopedic structures using various indices is important to prevent pathological processes that occur after the application of removable orthopedic splints to the support tissues of the prosthetic bed and their subsequent use by the patient, first of all, in the dynamics of clinical observations.

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