Anticalculus Efficacy of a Chewing Gum with Polyphosphates in a Twelve-Week Single-Blind Trial

Journal of Clinical Dentistry

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 45-47

  Porciani, Pier Francesco ^a   Grandini, Simone ^b   Sapio, Serena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPHOSPHATE; PYROPHOSPHATE; TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEWING GUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH HYGIENE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TOOTH PLAQUE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; TOOTH CALCULUS;

ADULT; CHEWING GUM; DENTAL CALCULUS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL HYGIENE INDEX; POLYPHOSPHATES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0037902054     PISSN: 08958831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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