The article discusses a prognostic test for caries susceptibility with the aim to provide
guidelines for preventing dental caries before they start. The caries susceptibility test, which …

Although the incidence of caries has diminished dramatically over the past 3 decades, small
groups of subjects remain highly susceptible and do not respond to conventional preventive …

A diagnostic test is particularly beneficial if it reveals the level of susceptibility prior to onset
of a disease process. In the case of childhood caries, such a diagnostic test affords the …

ABSTRACT A new saliva test for caries risk assessment introduced in this study integrates a
variety of host factors to predict for children, individual risk levels that are tooth-group …

Two major problems dominate today's clinical cariology: although it has been known for
centuries that sugar harms teeth this still does not often impinge on personal behaviour; the …

The aim of the study was to find out if any of the following factors, alone or in combination,
could be used for prediction of caries activity: salivary) S. mutans, salivary lactobacilli, buffer …

New qualitative methods of diagnosis are used now in dental practice. Very popular are
saliva diagnostic tests. They are fast and convenient for use. By the saliva one can make …

The aim of the study was to evaluate whether a combination of tests of salivary counts of
lactobacilli and S. mutans would be of more value in caries prediction than each test used by …

Saliva is a secretion of the salivary and mucous glands and is of major importance in the
maintainance of oral health. Over the last few decades, saliva has been evaluated as a …

Salivary diagnostics is now entering the surgery of the modern dentist, although no test yet
available is so specific and sensitive that caries can be diagnosed from saliva samples only …