Effect of after-meal sucrose-free gum-chewing on clinical caries
| Autor: | H.M. Proskin, Judit Szöke, Jolán Bánóczy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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0301 basic medicine
Male Sucrose Statistics as Topic Dentistry law.invention Chewing Gum chemistry.chemical_compound Eating Fluorides 0302 clinical medicine Randomized controlled trial law Medicine Sorbitol Single-Blind Method Child Orthodontics Meal education.field_of_study digestive oral and skin physiology Cariostatic Agents Incisor Female Adolescent Population Dental Caries Oral hygiene 03 medical and health sciences stomatognathic system Dentifrice Humans Gum chewing education General Dentistry Dentifrices Hungary business.industry DMF Index Reproducibility of Results 030206 dentistry Oral Hygiene Chewing gum Molar stomatognathic diseases 030104 developmental biology chemistry Sweetening Agents Patient Compliance business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of dental research. 80(8) |
| ISSN: | 0022-0345 |
| Popis: | Previous in situ and in vitro studies have demonstrated that the chewing of sucrose-free gum after eating reduces the development of dental caries. To investigate the extrapolation of these findings to the clinical setting, we conducted a two-year study on 547 schoolchildren in Budapest, Hungary. Subjects in the "Gum" group were instructed to chew one stick of a commercially available sorbitol-sweetened chewing gum for 20 minutes after meals, three times daily. The "Control" group was not provided with chewing gum. After two years, the "Gum" group exhibited a 38.7% reduction in incremental caries, excluding white spots, compared with the "Control" group. Including white spots, a corresponding 33.1% reduction was indicated. These results clearly suggest that even in a moderate caries population practicing normal oral hygiene, including the use of fluoride dentifrices, an after-meal gum-chewing regimen can significantly reduce the rate of caries development. |
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