Caries Potentiating Effect of Ethylene Diamine Tetraacetic Acid in the Rat.

The Cariogenicity of Various Corn Diets in the Rat

“…It is not known what caused this pronounced mortality, since other workers using essentially this same diet had good results when feeding this compound at the same level used in this experiments and at a level 2.5 times as great. 4 The effects on caries in those animals receiving diets Ml and M2 are of interest in that diet M2 contained 64 per cent corn grits while Ml contained 46 per cent, yet the caries score was considerably higher in the Ml animals. The fact that diet Ml contained sucrose while M2 did not must be of some significance in explaining the greater incidence of caries in these animals.…”

The Relation of Salivary Citrate to Dental Caries Experience in Children 12 to 14 Years Old

“…The citrate ion under essentially neutral conditions will decalcify enamel and dentin in the rat when present in the drinking water.2' 3 When 1 per cent sodium citrate was added to a diet producing occlusal caries in the rat, no significant change in the caries picture was evident. 4 Gustafson, Stelling, Abrahamson, and Brunius,5 however, found that the addition of 4 per cent sodium citrate to a purified diet producing caries in the hamster significantly reduced the cariogenicity of the diet.…”

“…The salivas were diluted [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] with an 0.03 per cent yeast extract (BBL) solution. Two tenths milliliter of the diluted saliva was transferred into 4.0 ml.…”