[REAL-TIME PCR IN THE COMPLEX DIAGNOSTICS OF COMBINED PATHOLOGY OF THE PERIODONTIUM AND GASTRO-DUODENAL ZONE]

Biological material of 92 patients (18-85 years old) with different severity chronic periodontitis were analyzed for bacterial pathogen colonization by using Dentofol kit (DNA-technology, Moscow). The cohort included 70 individuals with chronic gastritis, 2 patients with gastric and duodenal ulceration and 20 individuals with no gastric/duodenal pathology. The tight- est association with severity of the chronic periodontitis in the analyzed sub-cohort with the chronic gastritis was found with the prevalence of a complex T. for sythensis/T. denticola. Key contribution of this complex to progression of periodon- titis in males of the eldest group (above 55) was hypothesized. This data essentially differ from published results of other research groups where T. forsythensis and T. denticola were never reported as the principal causative agents of the chronic periodonitis in the gender/age/combined pathology normalized cohorts.