Associations between Microbiological and Salivary Caries Activity Tests and Caries Experience in Hungarian Adolescents

Caries Research

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 191-195

  Gabris K ^a   Nagy, G ^b   Madlena M ^b   Denes Zs ^d   Marton S ^c   Keszthelyi, G ^b   Banoczy J ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Adolescents; Buffer capacity; Candida yeast; Dental caries; Lactobacilli; Mutans streptococci; Salivary flow rate

Indexed keywords

BUFFER;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARIES; HUMAN; HUNGARY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTOBACILLUS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PH; PREVALENCE; SALIVA; SECRETION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BUFFERS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL CARIES ACTIVITY TESTS; HUMANS; HUNGARY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTOBACILLUS; PREVALENCE; SALIVA; SECRETORY RATE; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 0033125582     PISSN: 00086568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000016516     Document Type: Article

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