Makarov

pp. 444-457

This article presents a possibility of applying optical methods - for instance, a method of infrared diaphanoscopy, to detect inflammation in tissues of a mouth cavity at the stage of primary damage. The authors investigated the main exogenous and endogenous factors of inflammatory diseases of mouth cavity tissues, the mechanism of their emergence and expansion; the behavior of tissues’ optical and physical properties in the mouth cavity at various stages of inflammation was demonstrated; interrelation of those properties with the change in chromophore concentration with the expansion of the inflammatory process was also revealed.