ORGANIZATION OF SCREENING OF ONCOSTOMATOLOGICAL DISEASES IN THE SVERDLOVSK REGION AT THE PRESENT STAGE

Introduction. Since 2012, dentists in the Sverdlovsk region have increasingly been paying attention to the detection of oral diseases at the junction of dentistry and oncology. Oncostomatological disease is a serious threat in everyone's life and leads to a change in the quality of human life, however, their detection in the early stages remained at a fairly low level until the last. There is a high level of oncological diseases in the oral cavity, detected at late stages, which lead to high mortality in both percentage and absolute terms. The experience of our work in 2022–2024 on the territory of the Sverdlovsk region has shown that a significant part of oncostomatological diseases in the population can be identified at an early stage by equipping dentists with means of timely diagnosis of visual localization formations. All precancerous conditions and tumors of the mucous membrane of the mouth, tongue and red border of the lips are visually determined by medical professionals of any specialty. The identification of those tumors that medical professionals (average medical professionals and doctors) can detect at the early stages of the development of the pathological process on the accessible surfaces of the oral cavity and mucous membranes improves the quality of life of our patients. Subject. analysis of factors that reduce the quality and effectiveness of the detection of oncostomatological diseases in the Sverdlovsk region. Aim. To improve the methods of early detection of oral cancer and their prevention. Materials and Methods. A retrospective study of the work of the oncostomatology service in the districts of the Sverdlovsk region was conducted. Results. A program for the early detection and prevention of oncostomatological diseases in the Sverdlovsk region has been created and proposed for practical application. Conclusions. The lack of standardization of approaches to identifying and recording precancerous and cancerous diseases at the stages of providing primary health care, the lack of personnel with the skills to identify oncological diseases, are one of the factors for the low effectiveness of pathology detection. In dentistry, there are no clinical recommendations regulating the procedure for examining and treating patients with malignant neoplasms.