Bitter and sweet taste perception: relationships to self-reported oral hygiene habits and oral health status in a survey of Australian adults
| Autor: | Kiranjit Kaur, Mark Lucock, J. P. Wallace, Dean V. Sculley, Martin Veysey, Emma L. Beckett |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Adult
Taste Intensity Oral health media_common.quotation_subject Dental Caries Oral hygiene Sweet taste perception Sweet Food Preferences Habits stomatognathic system Perception Medicine Humans Child General Dentistry media_common business.industry Research Australia Taste Perception Bitter RK1-715 Chewing gum stomatognathic diseases Cross-Sectional Studies Dentistry Oral and maxillofacial surgery Wine tasting Self Report business Liking psychological phenomena and processes Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | BMC Oral Health, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2021) BMC Oral Health |
| ISSN: | 1472-6831 |
| Popis: | BackgroundOral health, an essential part of general health and well-being, is influenced by multiple factors, including oral hygiene habits and dietary factors. Dietary preferences are influenced by variation in taste perceptions and threshold tasting. Polymorphisms in specific genes for sweet and bitter taste receptors and bitter taste perception have been associated with dental caries. However, taste is complex with multiple receptors, each with multiple potential polymorphisms contributing to taste perception as well as social, cultural, and environmental influences. Additionally, these association studies have been conducted in restricted cohorts (e.g., children only). Furthermore, outcomes have been limited to dental caries and studies between taste perception and oral hygiene habits have not been completed.MethodsA cross-sectional online survey was conducted to investigate the relationships between bitter and sweet taste perception (liking and intensity of index food items), self-reported oral hygiene habits and oral health (n = 518).ResultsHigher mean intensity scores for bitter (16–21%) and sweet (ConclusionsWhile there were numerous relationships identified between liking and perception of sweet and bitter and oral health outcomes, the magnitude and direction of associations varied by outcome. The direction of the associations cannot be inferred due to the cross-sectional nature of the study. The demonstrated relationships justify further future investigations, which could help better understand if taste liking and perception is impacted by oral hygiene and health, or vice versa. This could be important in understanding the causation and progression of oral health diseases or the development of novel therapeutics for oral health. |
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