Learning from caries-free children in a high-caries American Indian population

Comparison of Salivary Secretory IgA in Caries-free Children and Children with Severe Early Childhood Caries

Background & Aims: Sever early childhood caries (SECC) is a multifactor common disease that unfortunately there have been a lot of unknown points about it. This study was performed to compare the levels of total S-IgA in children with and without SECC. Methods: In this cross-sectional study 44 children aged 6-24 months were divided into two groups of with SECC (n=20) and without SECC (n=24). Th...

High caries children in Australia: a 'tail' of caries distribution.

Salivary Microbiome Diversity in Caries-Free and Caries-Affected Children

Dental caries (tooth decay) is an infectious disease. Its etiology is not fully understood from the microbiological perspective. This study characterizes the diversity of microbial flora in the saliva of children with and without dental caries. Children (3-4 years old) with caries (n = 20) and without caries (n = 20) were recruited. Unstimulated saliva (2 mL) was collected from each child and t...

Dental caries in preschool Apache Indian children.

The dearth of information regarding dental caries in white and black preschool children in the United States has resulted in estimates of cariesfree individuals ranging from 98% for the 1-year-old to 22% for the 5-year-old child (WISAN; LAvELL; and COLWELL, JADA 55: 1, 1957; HENNON; STOOKEY; and MUHLER, JADA 79: 1405, 1969; SAVARA, and SUHER, J Dent Res 33: 808, 1954; INFANTE and RUSSELL, J Den...

Preventing dental caries in children: Indian scenario.

The prevalence of dental caries in developing countries like India is increasing to an alarming level in contrast to developed countries where it has decreased because of variety of preventive measures at the community and individual level. There is no State or Centre funded programs for prevention of dental diseases in India. The present review enlists the targeted prevention of dental caries ...