Effect of a daily dose of Lactobacillus brevis CD2 lozenges in high caries risk schoolchildren

Clinical Oral Investigations

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 555-561

  Campus, Guglielmo ^a,b   Cocco, Fabio ^a,b   Carta, Giovanna ^a   Cagetti, Maria Grazia ^b   Simark Mattson, Charlotte ^c   Strohmenger, Laura ^b   Lingström, Peter ^b,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

Caries; Children; Lactobacillus brevis CD2; Plaque pH; Probiotic; Salivary mutans streptococci

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS BREVIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR;

CHILD; DENTAL CARIES; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS BREVIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84894578823     PISSN: 14326981     EISSN: 14363771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00784-013-0980-9     Document Type: Article

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