Salivary factors affecting dental erosion in children.

Publisher: Karger Country of Publication: Switzerland NLM ID: 0103374 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 0008-6568 (Print) Linking ISSN: 00086568 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Caries Res Subsets: MEDLINE

Original Publication: Basel, New York, Karger.

Saliva/*chemistry ; Saliva/*metabolism ; Tooth Erosion/*physiopathology; Adolescent ; Analysis of Variance ; Buffers ; Case-Control Studies ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Colony Count, Microbial ; Dental Caries/physiopathology ; Disease Susceptibility ; Female ; Humans ; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ; Male ; Odds Ratio ; Reference Values ; Risk Factors ; Saliva/microbiology ; Secretory Rate ; Stimulation, Chemical ; Streptococcus mutans/isolation & purification ; Tooth Erosion/etiology

Dental erosion is becoming a major dental problem in both children and adults. The aim of this study was to measure the salivary flow rates, buffering capacity and mutans streptococci counts in children with erosion, and compare them to age- and sex-matched caries-free and caries-active individuals to establish which factors may be important in erosion. The study was conducted as a case-control study with standard methods of salivary and mutans streptococci measurement. The results showed significant differences for mutans streptococci counts (p = 0.05), unstimulated and stimulated salivary pH and buffering capacity (p = 0.001). These results suggest that although individuals with erosion have caries experience similar to a caries-free individual, their salivary characteristics more closely match those of a caries-active subject. The tests described are simple to carry out and may be useful in explaining individual patient susceptibility.

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Date Created: 19991222 Date Completed: 20000131 Latest Revision: 20181130

20240627

10.1159/000016574

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