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Lactobacilli and Streptococcus mutans in saliva, diet and caries increment in 8‐ and 13‐year‐old children
Author(s) -
STECKSÉENBLICKS CHRISTINA
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
european journal of oral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.802
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1600-0722
pISSN - 0909-8836
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0722.1987.tb01387.x
Subject(s) - saliva , meal , streptococcus mutans , sugar , food science , sucrose , medicine , dietary sucrose , bacteria , biology , genetics
— The aim of this paper was to evaiuate the correlation between some dietary factmors and prevalence of lactobacilli and S. mutans in saliva in randomly selected groups of 8‐ and 13‐yr‐old children. The relation between these parameters and caries increment over a 1‐yr period was also studied. In general there was a weak correlation between the number of these bacteria in saliva and total intake of sugar, surcose intake and meal frequency. However, the probability of finding Ilow total sugar intake, low sucrose intake and a low meal frequency was highest when there was a low prevalence of both bacteria and finding high total sugar, high sucrose and high meal frequency when there was a high prevalence of both bacteria. It was also shown at knowledge of sugar intake and meal frequency provided some supplement to bacterial tests in the selection of caries‐risk patients.