Open AccessPediatric liquid medicaments - Are they cariogenic? An in vitro study
Author(s) -
K L Girish Babu,
Geeta Maruti Doddamani,
L R Kumaraswamy Naik,
K N Jagadeesh
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of international society of preventive and community dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.476
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2250-1002
pISSN - 2231-0762
DOI - 10.4103/2231-0762.137637
Subject(s) - streptococcus mutans , sucrose , medicine , high performance liquid chromatography , ph meter , chromatography , pharmacology , dentistry , chemistry , food science , bacteria , genetics , biology
Young and chronically sick children receive a variety of oral liquid medications on a routine and regular basis. These pharmaceutical preparations are cariogenic and acidogenic in nature. Hence, the present study was taken up to determine the cariogenic potential of the commonly prescribed pediatric liquid medicaments.