&lt;p&gt;Comparison of Some Salivary Characteristics in Iraqi Children with Early Childhood Caries (ECC) and Children without Early Childhood Caries&lt;/p&gt;

Abbas, Maha Jamal; Al-Hadithi, Haraa Khairi; Mahmood, Maha Abdul-Kareem; Hussein, Hashim Mueen

doi:10.2147/ccide.s275963

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“…On the contrary, studies also have reported that there was no significant difference in pH and buffering capacity of saliva in children with and without ECC. 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 The authors justify that, pH and buffering capacity solely cannot be considered as a risk factor for ECC. Importance should be given to diet, microbial flora, salivary protein, as these factors could dominate pH and buffering capacity.…”

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“…On the other hand, few studies insisted that there was no difference in salivary calcium and phosphate level in caries-free and caries-active children. 28 , 36 , 54 , 55 One of the possible explanations for no difference in calcium in both the groups could be due to the fact that, saliva is a blood filtrate and the unaltered level of calcium in children with ECC might be due to the regulatory role of parathyroid hormone (PTH), maintaining its level homogeneously in both ECC and caries free children. 56 , 57…”

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Physical and chemical properties of saliva and its role in Early Childhood caries – A systematic review and meta-analysis

Ravikumar

Ramani

Gayathri

et al. 2023

Journal of Oral Biology and Craniofacial Research

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Physical and chemical properties of saliva and its role in Early Childhood caries – A systematic review and meta-analysis

Ravikumar

Ramani

Gayathri

et al. 2023

Journal of Oral Biology and Craniofacial Research

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“…The composition of saliva contains calcium, fluorine, phosphate, sodium, potassium, chloride, and bicarbonate. Also, the consistency of food increases the flow and buffering capacity of saliva which causes the bicarbonate content to be high, thereby having an impact on dental hygiene (Abbas, et al, 2020).…”

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Effect of the Snake and Ladder Game on Behavior and OHI-S Index of Deaf Children

A’yun,

Sulistyani

2023

IJMRA

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Deafness in children is one of the obstacles in gaining knowledge about dental and oral health. It also has an impact on attitudes and behavior of maintaining dental health. Therefore, dental health education accompanied by the right tools is needed to help in conveying information to deaf children in order to ensure the message is received clearly. This research aims to determine the effect of dental health education on the behavior and index of dental and oral hygiene of deaf children by using snake and ladder game. Methods: A quasi-experimental method with a non-randomized control group pre and post-test design was used, while 123 students aged 10-12 years were taken as a sample from 3 Special Schools in the Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The variables measured were the behavior of maintaining dental health and the Oral Hygiene Index Simplifies (OHI-S). Afterward, data were analyzed using the Wilcoxon and the Mann-Whitney tests. Results: The results of the Wilcoxon test showed that there were significant differences in dental health maintenance behavior and the OHI-S index in the treatment group (p<0.05). While the Mann-Whitney test showed significant differences between the treatment and control groups (p<0.05). Conclusions: The snake and ladder game are able to improve dental and oral health maintenance behavior as well as reduce the OHI-S index in deaf children.

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“…The oral acid production index is an important method to predict the occurrence of dental caries. Low salivary pH, evaluated independently of buffer capacity, was also linked to caries experience [22,23]. The modified Snyder's caries activity test (SCAT), which colorimetrically evaluates the acidproducing ability of bacteria in dental plaque and oral saliva, is a simple and accurate method of obtaining results from among the plethora of available dental caries activity tests [24,25].…”

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Assessment of early childhood caries using ICDAS and Snyder caries activity test among preschool children: a cross-sectional study

2023

Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry

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The aim of the present study was to elucidate the correlation between the International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS) and the Snyder caries activity test (SCAT) for the assessment of early dental caries in preschool children. Dental health status of 153 children aged 3–5 years was evaluated by oral examination. The ICDAS stage (enamel opacity stage to cavitated dentine caries stage (stages 1–6)) was assigned based on the evaluation of each tooth surface by a trained dentist based on the number of decayed (d) and filled teeth (ft). In this study, scores of d3–6t (t, teeth), d3–6s (s, tooth surface), d3–6ft and d3–6fs were the cut-off points for enamel caries, set to ICDAS code 3 (d3). SCAT score was assigned based on the acid production level of lactic acid bacteria in plaque (scores: 1–4). Linear correlation analysis was used to determine the correlation between ICDAS and SCAT scores. The proportion of children for each of the dental caries status were as follows: d0, 46.4%; d1–2, 28.1%; d3–4, 9.8%; d5–6, 15.7%. Regarding SCAT scores, 30%, 30.1%, 26.8% and 12.4% children had no, mild, moderate and severe caries activity, respectively. The d3–6t, d3–6s, d3–6ft and d3–6fs indices increased with age and were 0.56, 0.82, 2.03 and 5.05, respectively. Children with a higher SCAT score had higher ICDAS scores (p < 0.05). Our findings suggest that a combination of ICDAS and SCAT scores is beneficial for diagnosing caries progression and highly active caries. Early childhood caries should be managed early to prevent the enamel opacity stage to progress to cavitation.

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<p>Comparison of Some Salivary Characteristics in Iraqi Children with Early Childhood Caries (ECC) and Children without Early Childhood Caries</p>

Cited by 6 publications

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Physical and chemical properties of saliva and its role in Early Childhood caries – A systematic review and meta-analysis

Physical and chemical properties of saliva and its role in Early Childhood caries – A systematic review and meta-analysis

Effect of the Snake and Ladder Game on Behavior and OHI-S Index of Deaf Children

Assessment of early childhood caries using ICDAS and Snyder caries activity test among preschool children: a cross-sectional study

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