Low sucrose levels promote extensive Streptococcus mutans-induced dental caries
- 1 May 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Infection and Immunity
- Vol. 16 (2), 712-714
- https://doi.org/10.1128/iai.16.2.712-714.1977
Abstract
Sucrose (0.1%) significantly promotes dental caries induced by S. mutans in young gnotobiotic rats. Maximum caries activity was observed in rats provided a purified diet containing 3% sucrose.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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