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Microelement composition of the collection of salivolith samples taken from patients living in Novosibirsk, Vladivostok and Omsk was examined. Analysis of the microelement composition of the samples showed that the elements under determination are distributed extremely non-uniformly over the groups of salivoliths from patients living in different regions. Thus, salivoliths from the Vladivostok collection are characterized by higher content of selenium, iodine, vanadium, chromium and manganese but indium and cadmium occur in them more rarely than in the samples from Novosibirsk and Omsk. The salivoliths from the Omsk collection contain larger amounts of titanium, copper and zirconium than the samples from Novosibirsk and Vladivostok do, while some samples contain almost zero amounts of selenium and iodine, which is due to the specific features of the region.