A Study on the Caries and the Factors of Saliva in Elementary School Children

• Main Authors: Tso-Cheng Lin, 林佐丞
• Other Authors: Shun-Te Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28295954189936287292

碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 口腔衛生科學研究所碩士班 === 95 === Dental caries is a complex disease affecting a lot of people around the world.Several factors may cause dental caries,and some factors may play reciprocal factors to anti-caries.Among them,saliva,the most important physiological factor,contains many protecting factors to anti-caries.There are many different agents within saliva, such as flow rate,buffering capacity, antimicrobial activity,clearance from the oral cavity,and immune function, that protect the tooth surface against caries attack.In order to understand the anti-caries capacities of saliva of school children, we studied salivary flow rate,buffering capacity（salivary pH value）,salivary fluoride concentration, and the density of the oral microflora (including streptococci、lactobacilli and candida) .Finally we discussed the relationship between these oral physiological factors and DMFT index.