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Salivary Streptococcus mutans and caries prevalence in Brazilian schoolchildren
Y A Buischi1, P Axelsson, M de F Barbosa
1Department of Preventive Dentistry, Karlstad, Sweden.
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology
|February 1, 1989
Abstract:
The aim of the present study was to determine the levels of salivary Streptococcus mutans in Brazilian schoolchildren, and its possible correlation with caries prevalence. A positive correlation between different levels of S. mutans and caries prevalence was observed, individuals with high levels of S. mutans (greater than 100 colonies) had a DMFS significantly higher than those with low or no detectable S. mutans (0, 1-20, 21-40 colonies).