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Therapeutic Effectiveness of a Dietary Supplement for Management of Halitosis in Dogs
Published on: July 6, 2015
[Preliminary study of the clinical indices for halitosis]
1Department of Preventive and Pediatric Dentistry, College of Stomatology, Ninth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200011, China.
Purpose:
To explore the possibility of using other clinical indices to detect halitosis in stead of organoleptic test(OST). MEATHODS: 56 medical students were chosen as the subjects. Spearman test and Pearson test were used to analyze the relationship between OST results and other indices.
Results:
It was found that the value of volatile sulfur compounds (VSC) (r(Max)=0.537,P<0.01) rStable=0.572,P<0.01), pH of the saliva(r=0.344,P<0.01), cadaverine (r=0.352,P<0.01), OHI-S (r=0.323,P<0.05), colonies of facultative anaerobe from saliva(r=0.398,P<0.01) and tongue dorsum(r=0.293,P<0.05), colonies of anaerobe from tongue dorsum(r=0.473,P<0.01) correlated positively with OST score, but the coefficients were all low.
Conclusion:
It is not practical and feasible to replace OST with any other single index at present.
