Associations between dietary intake, dental caries experience and salivary bacterial levels in 12-year-old English schoolchildren

Archives of Oral Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 271-280

  Beighton, D ^a   Adamson, A ^b   Rugg Gunn, A ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dental caries; Dietary analysis; GI; Salivary micro organisms; Sucrose

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOBACILLUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; CARIOGENIC DIET; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTOBACILLUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUTH HYGIENE; PERIODONTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SALIVA; STATISTICAL MODEL; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TOOTH BRUSHING; UNITED KINGDOM; YEAST;

CHILD; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL CARIES; DIET, CARIOGENIC; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; DMF INDEX; EATING; ENGLAND; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; LOGISTIC MODELS; ORAL HYGIENE INDEX; PERIODONTAL INDEX; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SALIVA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; SUCROSE; TOOTHBRUSHING; YEASTS;

EID: 0030101568     PISSN: 00039969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-9969(96)84555-9     Document Type: Article

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