Effect of a school-based preventive program with salivary lactobacillus counts as sugar-motivating tool on caries increment in adolescents

Acta Odontologica Scandinavica

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 88-92

  Nylander, Anders ^b   Kumlin, Ingbritt ^b   Martinsson, Margareta ^b   Twetman, Svante ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adolescents; Dental caries; Lactobacilli; Saliva; Sugar motivation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTOBACILLUS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOTIVATION; SALIVA; SCHOOL DENTISTRY; SUGAR INTAKE;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DENTAL CARIES; DIETARY SUCROSE; DMF INDEX; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HEALTH EDUCATION, DENTAL; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SALIVA; SCHOOL DENTISTRY;

EID: 0035321743     PISSN: 00016357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000163501750157216     Document Type: Article

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