Open AccessCaries-risk assessment with a chairside optical spectroscopic sensor by monitoring bacterial-mediated acidogenic-profile of saliva in children
Author(s) -
Annie Shrestha,
Ma Mohamed-Tahir,
Jayshree Hegde,
Amir Azarpazhooh,
Anil Kishen
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of conservative dentistry/journal of conservative dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 0974-5203
pISSN - 0972-0707
DOI - 10.4103/0972-0707.87210
Subject(s) - saliva , acidogenesis , dentistry , medicine , materials science , chemistry , organic chemistry , methane , anaerobic digestion
This study aimed to evaluate the ability of an optical spectroscopic sensor (OSS) to monitor bacterial-mediated acidogenic-profile of saliva resulting from bacteria-sucrose interaction.