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Nanda J, Sachdev V, Sandhu M, et al. Correlation between dental caries experience and mutans streptococci counts using saliva and plaque as microbial risk indicators in 3-8 year old children. A cross Sectional study. J Clin Exp Dent. 2015;7(1):e114-8doi: 10.4317/jced.51814.
Nanda, J., Sachdev, V., Sandhu, M., & Deep-Singh-Nanda, K. (2015). Correlation between dental caries experience and mutans streptococci counts using saliva and plaque as microbial risk indicators in 3-8 year old children. A cross Sectional study. Journal of clinical and experimental dentistry, 7(1), e114-8. https://doi.org/10.4317/jced.51814
Nanda, Jasmine, et al. "Correlation between dental caries experience and mutans streptococci counts using saliva and plaque as microbial risk indicators in 3-8 year old children. A cross Sectional study." Journal of clinical and experimental dentistry vol. 7,1 (2015): e114-8. doi: https://doi.org/10.4317/jced.51814
Nanda J, Sachdev V, Sandhu M, Deep-Singh-Nanda K. Correlation between dental caries experience and mutans streptococci counts using saliva and plaque as microbial risk indicators in 3-8 year old children. A cross Sectional study. J Clin Exp Dent. 2015 Feb 01;7(1):e114-8. doi: 10.4317/jced.51814. eCollection 2015 Feb. PMID: 25810821; PMCID: PMC4367997.
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J Clin Exp Dent. 2015 Feb 01;7(1):e114-8. doi: 10.4317/jced.51814. eCollection 2015 Feb.

Correlation between dental caries experience and mutans streptococci counts using saliva and plaque as microbial risk indicators in 3-8 year old children. A cross Sectional study.

Journal of clinical and experimental dentistry

Jasmine Nanda, Vinod Sachdev, Meera Sandhu, Kanwar Deep-Singh-Nanda

Affiliations

  1. Post Graduate Student, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, I.T.S Centre for Dental Studies and Research, Ghaziabad.
  2. MDS, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, I.T.S Centre for Dental Studies and Research, Ghaziabad.

PMID: 25810821 PMCID: PMC4367997 DOI: 10.4317/jced.51814

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: Determination of the relative amounts of mutans streptococcus in both saliva and plaque and to study its correlation with dental caries in children.

STUDY DESIGN: The study comprised of 60 children aged 3-8 years divided into 2 groups (30 children in each): Group A- Children with more than 4 carious teeth and Group B- Children without caries. Saliva and plaque was collected from children of both the groups with the help of Dentocult SM strip test kit (Orion Diagnostic). Following incubation, mutans streptococcus scores (from 0 to 3) in each individual was evaluated and compared between both the groups.

RESULTS: On comparing the two groups, mean ± SD of saliva score and plaque score was 2.40 ± 0.675 and 2.40 ± 0.621 respectively in group A, whereas it was 0.60 ± 0.498 and 0.83 ± 0.531 in children of group B showing a significant correlation (p = < 0.001) between mutans streptococci scores in both saliva and plaque and dental caries experience.

CONCLUSIONS: There is a direct and strong co-relation between the salivary and plaque mutans streptococcus counts and caries activity in children aged 3-8 years. Key words:Mutans streptococci, dentocult, dental caries.

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