abstract：:This in vivo pilot study was carried out to test the antibacterial effect of glass ionomer containing chlorhexidine (test group) in comparison to conventional glass ionomer (control group). Fifty 6- to 11-year-old children with one occlusal lesion in a molar were randomly allocated to test and control groups in a para...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Frencken JE,Imazato S,Toi C,Mulder J,Mickenautsch S,Takahashi Y,Ebisu S

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study measured dental caries in children after cessation of a 30-month randomised clinical trial in which the intervention group received supervised toothbrushing once a day at school with 1,000 ppm fluoride toothpaste and a home support package encouraging twice-daily toothbrushing. The non-intervention group di...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Pine CM,Curnow MM,Burnside G,Nicholson JA,Roberts AJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study aimed to compare the amounts of softened enamel removable by ultrasonication and by toothbrushing abrasion of briefly eroded samples. Thirty bovine enamel samples were demineralized in hydrochloric acid (pH 2.1) for 60 s and were then either brushed with 350 brushing strokes in toothpaste slurry (group A) or...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Wiegand A,Wegehaupt F,Werner C,Attin T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present investigation was to study the prevalence of approximal caries lesions and fillings in posterior teeth at 15 years of age in a prospectively followed Swedish population (n = 568), with special reference to their caries experience at the age of 3 years. Only approximal surfaces were recorded, sin...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Alm A,Wendt LK,Koch G,Birkhed D

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to determine whether adding calcium lactate to chewing gum containing xylitol enhances remineralization of enamel surfaces using an early caries lesion model. Enamel slabs were cut from human extracted sound teeth and artificial subsurface lesions created within each. Half the enamel slabs...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Suda R,Suzuki T,Takiguchi R,Egawa K,Sano T,Hasegawa K

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of enamel defects in the development of dental caries and their association with feeding practices and oral health behaviors in a cohort study of low-socioeconomic children from birth to 36 months of age in northeastern Brazil. Subjects were registered at birth a...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Oliveira AF,Chaves AM,Rosenblatt A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaps remain in our knowledge about the levels of fluoride intake that cause dental fluorosis. The purpose of this study was to report the fluorosis prevalence by levels of estimated fluoride intake in an effort to understand the importance of different levels of daily fluoride intake. As part of the longitudinal Iowa ...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Hong L,Levy SM,Warren JJ,Broffitt B,Cavanaugh J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of irradiation and surface condition on in situ remineralization of demineralized human and bovine enamel. Specimens (n=96) obtained from 24 human molars and 24 bovine incisors were prepared. The surfaces of half of the specimens were abraded while the others rem...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Kielbassa AM,Hellwig E,Meyer-Lueckel H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This in situ/ex vivo study evaluated whether saliva stimulated by chewing gum could prevent or reduce the wear and the percent change in microhardness (%SMH) of bovine and human enamel submitted to erosion followed by brushing abrasion immediately or after 1 h. During 2 experimental 7-day crossover phases, 9 previousl...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Rios D,Honório HM,Magalhães AC,Delbem AC,Machado MA,Silva SM,Buzalaf MA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adhesion of bacteria to pellicle-coated tooth surfaces is the first step in biofilm formation on teeth. The aim of this study was to explore whether human milk prevents or promotes adhesion of cariogenic Streptococcus mutans to saliva-coated hydroxyapatite (HA) using an in vitro model system. S. mutans binding to HA c...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Wernersson J,Danielsson Niemi L,Einarson S,Hernell O,Johansson I

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limited information is available on the effects of sucking acidic candies on saliva composition and the protective role of saliva in this relation. Therefore the aim of this study was to determine salivary effects of sucking acidic candies in vivo in relation to individual variations in whole-saliva flow rate (WSFR) a...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Jensdottir T,Nauntofte B,Buchwald C,Bardow A

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim was to evaluate a 3-year randomised controlled trial of school-based fluoride mouth rinsing (FMR) on approximal caries development in 13- to 16-year-olds with low to moderate caries risk. The adolescents used F toothpaste at home and underwent prophylactic treatment at yearly check-ups at public dental clinics...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Moberg Sköld U,Birkhed D,Borg E,Petersson LG

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of 9.6 microm CO2 laser irradiation on enamel dissolution kinetics was investigated using a constant composition method designed for rate measurements of enamel dissolution as a function of depth, on a micrometer scale. In contrast to lower irradiation intensities (< or =1.0 J cm(-2)), which consistently...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Gerard DE,Fried D,Featherstone JD,Nancollas GH

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to determine the pharmacokinetics of a new hydroxyapatite-Eudragit RS100 diffusion-controlled fluoride-releasing system designed for intraoral use with a 0.15 mg F(-)/day release for a 1-month period. Matrix tablets, each containing 18 mg of sodium fluoride, were bonded to the buccal surface o...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Altinova YB,Alaçam A,Aydin A,Sanisoglu SY

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This crossover study evaluated the effect of calcium carbonate (CaCO(3))-based monofluorophosphate dentifrice on enamel remineralization. Ten volunteers wore palatal appliances containing four enamel blocks with caries-like lesions, two of them covered by a test plaque of mutans streptococci. The following treatments ...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Cury JA,Simões GS,Del Bel Cury AA,Gonçalves NC,Tabchoury CP

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim was to assess how accurately some commonly used risk factors/risk markers (predictors) for caries development could identify children with and without approximal caries as judged from bitewing radiography. Two hundred and sixty-seven consecutive 5-year-old children from two Swedish cities participated. Three e...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Anderson M,Stecksén-Blicks C,Stenlund H,Ranggård L,Tsilingaridis G,Mejàre I

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To study the effectiveness of four different preventive programmes within a group of adolescents at high risk of caries. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:In 1995, a cohort of 12-year-olds was examined for caries and completed a questionnaire. Subjects identified as being at high risk were examined every year until 2000 when t...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Källestål C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this clinical study was to investigate the acid resistance of enamel lesions remineralized in situ by a sugar-free chewing gum containing casein phosphopeptide-amorphous calcium phosphate nanocomplexes (CPP-ACP: Recaldent). The study utilized a double-blind, randomized, crossover design with two treatments:...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Iijima Y,Cai F,Shen P,Walker G,Reynolds C,Reynolds EC

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to evaluate the colonization profile and clonal distribution of Streptococcus mutans isolated from oral cavities that presented coronal and root caries lesions. The isolation and biochemical identification of mutans streptococci were carried out by using saliva samples, dental plaque, ...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Nascimento MM,Höfling JF,Gonçalves RB

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New technologies have provided novel insights into how dental plaque functions as a biofilm. Confocal microscopy has confirmed that plaque has an open architecture similar to other biofilms, with channels and voids. Gradients develop in areas of dense biomass over short distances in key parameters that influence micro...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Marsh PD

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review aims to outline the effects of fluoride on the biological processes involved in the formation of tooth tissues, particularly dental enamel. Attention has been focused on mechanisms which, if compromised, could give rise to dental fluorosis. The literature is extensive and often confusing but a much clearer...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Robinson C,Connell S,Kirkham J,Brookes SJ,Shore RC,Smith AM

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives were (1) to assess caries development, including the incidence and rate of lesion progression, in a Swedish cohort from adolescence to young adulthood and (2) to compare the caries incidence rates in adolescents with those of young adults. The original material consisted of 536 children aged 11-13 years...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Mejàre I,Stenlund H,Zelezny-Holmlund C

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to determine the antibacterial activity of oolong tea extract on oral streptococci, including Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sobrinus, and to identify the response to its components. Antibacterial activity was found when the extract was added to S. mutans cells in chemicall...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Sasaki H,Matsumoto M,Tanaka T,Maeda M,Nakai M,Hamada S,Ooshima T

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After exposing enamel specimens to 0.3% citric acid at pH 3.2 for various times, the acid was titrated to pH 7 before rinsing the specimens in water. After freeze-drying the specimens were examined by scanning electron microscopy. This procedure eliminates artefacts due to drying and mineral precipitation. The results...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Eisenburger M,Shellis RP,Addy M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A questionnaire was sent to 54 experts in preventive dentistry in 23 European countries in order to make an inventory of existing national dietary guidelines for the prevention of dental caries. In addition, the experts were asked to give their personal opinion on several issues concerning the relationship between die...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： van Loveren C,Duggal MS

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although chlorhexidine is one of the most efficacious antimicrobial agents used for the prevention of dental caries, side effects limit its application. The effects of gaegurin 6 (GGN6), an animal-derived cationic peptide, and its derivatives PTP6 and PTP12 on the growth of oral streptococci were investigated to asses...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Kim SS,Kim S,Kim E,Hyun B,Kim KK,Lee BJ

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sobrinus are associated with the development of dental caries. The purpose of this study was to differentiate these bacteria by morphology, biochemical characteristics and PCR, and to compare their occurrence with the prevalence of dental caries in the Mosuo people. Plaque sample...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Wu H,Fan M,Zhou X,Mo A,Bian Z,Zhang Q,Chen Z

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared the effect of a copper phosphate cement (BCC) and a conventional glass ionomer cement (GIC) on carious dentine that remains under restorations in vivo. Using a split-mouth design, 45 primary molar pairs with dentine caries were sampled microbiologically. Without further removal of carious dentine, ...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Foley J,Blackwell A

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monofluorophosphate (MFP), an anti-caries agent commonly used in toothpaste, is known to be degraded to fluoride and orthophosphate by bacterial phosphatases in dental plaque. We have examined the effect of pH, temperature, plaque thickness and some ions on this process. Both natural plaque and artificial microcosm pl...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Pearce EI,Dibdin GH

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One aim of the present laboratory study was to determine whether a visual scoring system (ERK) developed for occlusal caries could be applied to approximal lesions. A new histological technique (autofluorescence, AF) recognises dentine that is soft and would be removed with an excavator during operative treatment. A s...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Kidd EA,Banerjee A,Ferrier S,Longbottom C,Nugent Z

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim was to study the short-term effect of a varying sucrose exposure on plaque acidogenicity and cariogenic microflora in two groups of subjects with different levels of mutans streptococci (MS). Eight subjects with low (<10(4)) and 8 with high (>10(6)) numbers of MS per millilitre saliva participated. Three 7-day...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Aranibar Quiroz EM,Lingström P,Birkhed D

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the introduction of fluoridated table salt in the staff cafeteria (VZM) of the Heidelberg University Medical and Dental School, the opportunity was taken to determine urinary fluoride excretion of those eating their main daily meals there. Subjects collected 24-hour urine in three fractions (mornings, afternoons...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Schulte AG,Gräber R,Kasperk C,Koch MJ,Staehle HJ

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tap water of Kuopio, Finland, was fluoridated from 1959 to 1992. In the first decade of fluoridation, children in Kuopio had lower DMF values than children in Jyväskylä, a nearby low-fluoride town, but later differences between the towns have been small and inconsistent. The present study aimed to gain further ins...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Seppä L,Hausen H,Kärkkäinen S,Larmas M

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dentine-pulp complex shows a broad spectrum of responses to caries of the dental tissues, which represents a summation of injury, defence and repair events taking place. The relative importance of these various events will reflect both the extent of disease activity and metabolic state of the tissues. This review ...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Smith AJ

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scottish children have one of the highest levels of caries experience in Europe. Only 33% of 5-year-old children in Dundee who developed caries in their first permanent molars by 7 brushed their teeth twice a day. High-caries-risk children should benefit if they brush more often with fluoridated toothpaste. The aim of...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Curnow MM,Pine CM,Burnside G,Nicholson JA,Chesters RK,Huntington E

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of fluoride varnish (FV) in inhibiting progression of secondary caries (SC). In a first experiment, human teeth, restored either with amalgam or resin composite, were exposed for 4 days to a microbial caries model. Half of each specimen was then painted with an a...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Fontana M,González-Cabezas C,Haider A,Stookey GK

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine plaque and saliva composition after a fluoride rinse and subsequent sucrose application. Fifteen subjects accumulated plaque for 48 h, and then rinsed with a fluoride rinse based on 228 microg/g (ppm) Na2SiF6 and some received no rinse. After 60 min, upper and lower buccal mola...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Vogel GL,Zhang Z,Chow LC,Schumacher GE

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutans streptococci (MS) and lactobacillus (LB) counts (CRT Bacteria chair-side test) were compared and correlated with the respective caries experience (DMF) of cystic fibrosis (CF) homozygotes (n = 20), CF heterozygotes (n = 20) and healthy controls (n = 20). Each group of subjects was divided into two equal age gro...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Aps JK,Van Maele GO,Claeys G,Martens LC

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives were to: (1) determine the salivary concentrations of urea during 20 min chewing of a sugar-free gum containing 30 mg of urea; (2) measure the degree to which this urea would diffuse into a gel-stabilized plaque; (3) study the effect of the urea on the fall and subsequent rise in pH (Stephan curve) on e...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Dawes C,Dibdin GH

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four-hour urine samples were collected from each of thirteen 5- to 6-year-old children both under customary conditions of fluoride intake (i.e. usual diet including milk containing 0.5 mg fluoride and usual oral hygiene procedures with fluoride toothpaste) and during a 4-day study period in which their customar...

journal_title：Caries research

authors： Ketley CE,Lennon MA

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00