The sources of active forms of oxygen in the normal oral tissues and in pathology

In the experiment on rats the changes of the superoxydanionradical production from microsomal and mitochondrial oxidation and tissue phagocytes of the saliva gland and parodontium in contact sialadenitis, spontaneous parodontitis, after ionizing radiation have been investigated. It is supposed that an increase or decrease of superoxydanionradical production from different sources demands a differentiated corrective approach.