The Study of Cariogenicity of Raw Sugarcane in 12-year-old Children in Punjab, India

There is laboratory evidence that refined carbohydrates are more cariogenic compared with unrefined carbohydrates. It was reported that sugarcane workers in South Africa, who consumed large quantities of raw sugarcane daily, had a low caries experience. However, other epidemiologic studies of this relationship, both in Africa and elsewhere, have given mixed results and to date the question concerning the cariogenicity of raw sugarcane remains equivocal.