A ten-year cross-sectional and follow-up study of salivary flow rates and mutans streptococci and lactobacillus counts in elderly Swedish individuals

Oral Health and Preventive Dentistry

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 185-194

  Fure, Solveig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Elderly subjects; Incidence; Lactobacilli; Mutans streptococci; Salivary flow

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENTURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTOBACILLUS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PH; SALIVA; SECRETION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; SWEDEN; XEROSTOMIA;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTURES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INCIDENCE; LACTOBACILLUS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; SALIVA; SAMPLING STUDIES; SECRETORY RATE; SEX FACTORS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; SWEDEN; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 13744256884     PISSN: 16021622     EISSN: 17579996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3290/j.ohpd.a8526     Document Type: Article

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