Snack Food Intake of Adolescents and Caries Development
- 1 June 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Dental Research
- Vol. 56 (6), 568-573
- https://doi.org/10.1177/00220345770560060301
Abstract
The relationship between the frequency of eating various snack foods, socioeconomic variables, and an increment in caries was studied in 143 adolescents. There were negative correlations between DMFT increments and the frequency of apples, fruit juice, and sugarless gum intake, and a positive association of DMFT increments with chocolate candy intake and spending money.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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