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Correlation between dental caries experience and mutans streptococci counts using saliva and plaque as microbial risk indicators in 3-8 year old children. A cross Sectional study
Objectives: Determination of the relative amounts of mutans streptococcus in both saliva and plaque and to study its correlation with dental caries in children. Study Design: The study comprised of 60 children aged 3-8 years divided into 2 groups (30 children in each): Group A- Children with more th...
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Medicina Oral S.L.
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4367997/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25810821 http://dx.doi.org/10.4317/jced.51814 |
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author | Nanda, Jasmine Sachdev, Vinod Sandhu, Meera Deep-Singh-Nanda, Kanwar |
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description | Objectives: Determination of the relative amounts of mutans streptococcus in both saliva and plaque and to study its correlation with dental caries in children. Study Design: The study comprised of 60 children aged 3-8 years divided into 2 groups (30 children in each): Group A- Children with more than 4 carious teeth and Group B- Children without caries. Saliva and plaque was collected from children of both the groups with the help of Dentocult SM strip test kit (Orion Diagnostic). Following incubation, mutans streptococcus scores (from 0 to 3) in each individual was evaluated and compared between both the groups. Results: On comparing the two groups, mean ± SD of saliva score and plaque score was 2.40 ± 0.675 and 2.40 ± 0.621 respectively in group A, whereas it was 0.60 ± 0.498 and 0.83 ± 0.531 in children of group B showing a significant correlation (p = < 0.001) between mutans streptococci scores in both saliva and plaque and dental caries experience. Conclusions: There is a direct and strong co-relation between the salivary and plaque mutans streptococcus counts and caries activity in children aged 3-8 years. Key words:Mutans streptococci, dentocult, dental caries. |
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spelling | pubmed-43679972015-03-25 Correlation between dental caries experience and mutans streptococci counts using saliva and plaque as microbial risk indicators in 3-8 year old children. A cross Sectional study Nanda, Jasmine Sachdev, Vinod Sandhu, Meera Deep-Singh-Nanda, Kanwar J Clin Exp Dent Research Objectives: Determination of the relative amounts of mutans streptococcus in both saliva and plaque and to study its correlation with dental caries in children. Study Design: The study comprised of 60 children aged 3-8 years divided into 2 groups (30 children in each): Group A- Children with more than 4 carious teeth and Group B- Children without caries. Saliva and plaque was collected from children of both the groups with the help of Dentocult SM strip test kit (Orion Diagnostic). Following incubation, mutans streptococcus scores (from 0 to 3) in each individual was evaluated and compared between both the groups. Results: On comparing the two groups, mean ± SD of saliva score and plaque score was 2.40 ± 0.675 and 2.40 ± 0.621 respectively in group A, whereas it was 0.60 ± 0.498 and 0.83 ± 0.531 in children of group B showing a significant correlation (p = < 0.001) between mutans streptococci scores in both saliva and plaque and dental caries experience. Conclusions: There is a direct and strong co-relation between the salivary and plaque mutans streptococcus counts and caries activity in children aged 3-8 years. Key words:Mutans streptococci, dentocult, dental caries. Medicina Oral S.L. 2015-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4367997/ /pubmed/25810821 http://dx.doi.org/10.4317/jced.51814 Text en Copyright: © 2015 Medicina Oral S.L. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Nanda, Jasmine Sachdev, Vinod Sandhu, Meera Deep-Singh-Nanda, Kanwar Correlation between dental caries experience and mutans streptococci counts using saliva and plaque as microbial risk indicators in 3-8 year old children. A cross Sectional study |
title | Correlation between dental caries experience and mutans streptococci
counts using saliva and plaque as microbial risk indicators
in 3-8 year old children. A cross Sectional study |
title_full | Correlation between dental caries experience and mutans streptococci
counts using saliva and plaque as microbial risk indicators
in 3-8 year old children. A cross Sectional study |
title_fullStr | Correlation between dental caries experience and mutans streptococci
counts using saliva and plaque as microbial risk indicators
in 3-8 year old children. A cross Sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Correlation between dental caries experience and mutans streptococci
counts using saliva and plaque as microbial risk indicators
in 3-8 year old children. A cross Sectional study |
title_short | Correlation between dental caries experience and mutans streptococci
counts using saliva and plaque as microbial risk indicators
in 3-8 year old children. A cross Sectional study |
title_sort | correlation between dental caries experience and mutans streptococci
counts using saliva and plaque as microbial risk indicators
in 3-8 year old children. a cross sectional study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4367997/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25810821 http://dx.doi.org/10.4317/jced.51814 |
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