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Salivary levels of cariogenic bacterial species during orthodontic treatment with thermoplastic aligners or fixed appliances: a prospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: Fixed orthodontic appliances might be associated with intraoral adverse effects on enamel, due to plaque accumulation and their colonization by oral microbes. At the same time, the demand for esthetic alternatives to orthodontic treatment, like thermoplastic aligners, is growing. However...

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Autores principales: Sifakakis, Iosif, Papaioannou, William, Papadimitriou, Aikaterini, Kloukos, Dimitrios, Papageorgiou, Spyridon N., Eliades, Theodore
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6068060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30066184
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40510-018-0230-4