INTRODUCTION Dental caries is a diet-associated disease which continues to be a serious health problem in most industrialized and developing countries. Strategies to maximize caries prevention should automatically consider the use of sugar substitutes. It is important that public health authorities are made cognizant of the availability of new polyol-type sugar substitutes. REVIEW SUMMARY Cli...

Dental caries is an infectious oral disease originated by the presence of different microorganisms from well-defined biofilms. Many treatments for dental have been demonstrated to be successful protocols; however, incidence and prevalence remain still high. Although silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) shown excellent antimicrobial properties, even against bacteria, there no available scientific inform...

Dental plaque, biofilms of microorganisms on tooth surface, plays an important role in the development of caries and periodontal disease. Our aim was to check the prevalence of bacteria in dental plaque and to test in vitro antibacterial activity of antibiotics and pomrgranate extracts against dental plaque bacteria. Doxycycline and clindamycin showed highest range of antibacterial activity aga...

The prevalence of dental caries continues to increase, and novel strategies to reverse this trend appear necessary. The probiotic Streptococcus salivarius strain M18 offers the potential to confer oral health benefits as it produces bacteriocins targeting the important cariogenic species Streptococcus mutans, as well as the enzymes dextranase and urease, which could help reduce dental plaque ac...

Background: Pregnancy is a physiological condition that affects the general and oral health.It also associated with an increase in oxidative stress, which may presispose to diseases including dental caries. Aim of study: This study aimed measure salivary protein carbonyl, glutathione peroxidase selenium levels women who are pregnant their association caries comparison non-pregnant women, find o...

D ental caries is a significant public health problem for a large proportion, of the Saudi population, especially the child segment. Preventive strategies tend to focus on dietary modification and the use of fluoride and pit and fissure sealants to increase the host resistance. Mutans streptococci (MS) in particular Streptococcus mutans is a major causative bacteria that are involved in dental ...

The teeth of 44 children aged under 6 years who had been taking syrup medicines regularly for at least six months were compared with those of a control group of 47 children of similar ages. Dental disease was assessed by measuring dental caries, dental plaque, and gingivitis. The children who were receiving sucrose-based medicines had significantly more carious teeth and gingivitis. It is concl...

BACKGROUND In the present state of knowledge regarding the etiology of dental caries, it is unacceptable for studies addressing factors associated with this outcome to disregard oral hygiene. Simple, valid methods are needed for the assessment of oral hygiene in adolescents to allow this condition to be properly investigated in epidemiological studies on caries and assist in the establishment o...

statement of problem: dental plaque is the main source for dental caries and there is no proper vaccine that can affect dental plaques. objectives: daily use of an efficient anti-plaque product can be very beneficial in plaque control and, thus, prevention of caries. this study aims to evaluate the antibacterial effects of four products of chlorhexidine and fluoride on two types of cariogenic b...

Mutans Streptococci, in particular S. mutans and S. sobrinus, are generally considered to be the prime etiological bacteria of human dental caries. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of mutans streptococci in dental plaque in three groups of caries-free and caries-affected Venezuelan children aged 2-6, 7-12, 13-19 years, and their possible association with dental caries. The f...