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Dental caries is a global oral health problem caused due to localized demineralization of the enamel. Chemical plaque control is used as an adjuvant to mechanical plaque control in removing biofilm, thereby preventing dental caries. In recent times, there has been a renewed interest in nature?based products. This systematic review aimed to analyse the existing literature to compare the effectiveness of herbal and conventional dentifrices on prevention of dental caries. A search was done in the databases of PubMed and Google Scholar in July 2020 for the related topic. A hand search was done from the references of primary studies and other clinical trial registry sites. Randomized control trials, comparative clinical trials, and in vitro studies in which the effectiveness of herbal and conventional dentifrices on prevention of dental caries were included after review by the reviewers. The systematic search revealed a total of thirty?two publications from which ten publications were included. Five studies were clinical studies and five were in vitro studies. All the studies used microbiological analysis for the determination of cariogenic microorganisms in plaque and saliva, whereas one study used pH of plaque and saliva. Among the included studies, all studies had a high risk of bias with level 2 evidence. With the evidence available, it can be concluded that herbal dentifrices and fluoride dentifrices have similar antimicrobial activity against cariogenic microorganisms.
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Saliva is a complex secretion consisting of 99% of water and remaining 1% of organic andinorganic molecules. Sucrose and starches are the predominant dietary carbohydrates in modernsocieties.Among all thefoods consumed by children, chocolates and biscuits are the mostcommon. Therefore this present invivo study was conducted to assess the acidogeniceffect ofcommercially available biscuits on salivary pH among 10 to 15 years old children. Study Designused in the study was In Vivo clinical study (Pilot Trail). The population collected in the survey waschildren between the age group of 10-15 yearsold children. 4 Groups were considered and 10 ineach group. Group 1: Hide and Seek, Group 2: Good Day, Group 3: Dream and Cream, Group 4:Oreo. Sampling method used in the study was conducted as simple random sampling. Ethicalapproval of the study was obtained from Saveetha Institutional Review Board. Informed consent ofthe children were obtained from the parents. Descriptive statistics were expressed by means ofmean and standard deviation. Shapiro Wilks test used to test the normality of the data set.KruskalWallis test was used to find the difference in mean Salivary pH between the groups and within the groups at Baseline, Immediate and after 15min, 30 mins. A statistically significant difference inmean Salivary pH was observed between the groups at Immediate and after 30 mins(p<0.05). Themean Salivary pH was significantly dropped in Oreo, Dream cream and Hide & Seek groups atvarious time-periods. Based on the results of the present study, it can be concluded that maximumdrop in mean salivary pHwas observed in Group IV followed by Group II and Group I. It wasobserved that in all the groups, the pH gradually got back to near normal levels due to the bufferingmechanism of saliva
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Introduction: Dental caries is the most common chronic disease of childhood that interferes with normal nutrition intake, speech, and daily routine activities. Dental caries is a lifetime disease, and the highest priority risk group is school children. Aim: To assess the prevalence of dental caries and treatment needs among school going children of Chandigarh. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was done among school going children of Chandigarh in the age group of 3-17 years. The subjects were selected from four randomly selected schools. All the children from the selected schools were examined. A total of 4493 subjects formed the sample size. Dentition status was assessed using dft index by Gruebbel for primary dentition and DMFT index by Klein, Palmer, Knutson for permanent dentition, respectively. Chi-square test was used to find an association between the study variables. Independent t-test and one-way ANOVA were used to compare the mean difference. Results: Among the 4493 study subjects, caries prevalence was found to be 47.3%. Mean dft and DMFT score of the population was 1.06 ± 1.995 and 0.41 ± 1.022, respectively. When analyzing the treatment needs among various age groups 42.6% of the study subjects required oral prophylaxis and 45% required restorative procedures. Conclusion: Based on the findings, it can be concluded that high prevalence of caries was found in primary dentition than permanent dentition and most of the decayed teeth were untreated. This study emphasize the need for treating dental caries at its earliest possible stage and parents should be made aware of caries preventive measures for their children.