Comparison of chairside microbiological screening systems and conventional selective media in children with and without visible dental caries

Pediatric Dentistry

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 363-368

  Tanabe, Y ^a   Park, J H ^b   Tinanoff, N ^a   Turng, B F ^c   Lilli, H ^c   Minah, G E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^c BD Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Dental caries; Early childhood caries; Infants; Microbial tests; Mutans streptococci

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARIES; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTOBACILLUS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL CARIES ACTIVITY TESTS; HUMANS; INFANT; LACTOBACILLUS; LINEAR MODELS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 33748539750     PISSN: 01641263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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