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Xylitol in caries prevention: what is the evidence for clinical efficacy?
1Department of Oral Biology, Dental Faculty, University of Oslo, Norway.
Oral Diseases
|April 14, 1999
Abstract:
Xylitol has attracted much attention as an alternative sweetener. Essentially all clinical studies concerning the effect of xylitol on caries development consent to its non-cariogenicity and to the beneficial effect of substituting sucrose with xylitol in chewing gums and sweets. However, claims of anti-caries or therapeutic effects, and superiority of xylitol over other polyols are still to be confirmed by well designed and conducted studies from independent research groups.