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Sweets and other sugary products tend to be the primary etiologic factors in dental caries
Author(s) -
Sundin Birgitta,
Granath Lars
Publication year - 1992
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.1600-0722.1992.tb01728.x
Subject(s) - dentistry , primary (astronomy) , medicine , physics , astronomy
The aim of this study was to analyze the relationships between caries incidence and each of seven caries‐related factors in a group of 15‐ to 18‐yr‐olds as well as in single and combined subgroups representing favorable or less favorable fractions of six of the factors. Sixty‐nine 18‐yr‐olds were interviewed about consumption of sweets and other sugar‐containing products during the past 3 yr and examined for oral hygiene, salivary counts of mulans streptococci and lactobacilli, salivary flow rate and oral sugar clearance time at the ages of 15 and 18. Simple linear correlations and a stepwise multiple regression analysis were used to compare ranks and explanatory values. The highest correlations were obtained for intake of sweets and intake of other sugary products, with r values increasing from 0.25 and 0.16, respectively, in the total material to 0.70 and 0.67 in less favorable fractions of oral hygiene, salivary flow rate and other sugary products in the former case, sweets in the latter. The stepwise multiple regression analysis revealed that sweets and other sugary products contributed 12 percentage points to the total explanatory value, which was as low as 19%.