Six months of daily high-dose xylitol in high-risk schoolchildren: A randomized clinical trial on plaque ph and salivary mutans streptococci

Caries Research

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 455-461

  Campus, G ^a,b   Cagetti, M G ^a,b   Sacco, G ^a   Solinas, G ^a   Mastroberardino, S ^b   Lingstrom P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b WHO Collaborating Centre of Milan for Epidemiology and Community Dentistry   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chewing gum; Mutans streptococci; Plaque pH; Xylitol

Indexed keywords

ANTICARIES AGENT; CARIOGENIC AGENT; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENT; XYLITOL;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CHEWING GUM; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SALIVA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TOOTH PLAQUE;

AREA UNDER CURVE; CARIOGENIC AGENTS; CARIOSTATIC AGENTS; CHEWING GUM; CHILD; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DENTAL CARIES SUSCEPTIBILITY; DENTAL PLAQUE; DMF INDEX; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; SALIVA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS; XYLITOL;

EID: 72049122461     PISSN: 00086568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000264682     Document Type: Article

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