Buffered sucrose candies as a safe strategy for children’s dental caries protection

• In: Posters
• At: Amsterdam (the Netherlands) (2012)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: IPS-P-20
• By: AL-ENEZI, Nadia (PNU, Pharmaceutic, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
• Co-author(s): Al-Subie, A. (PNU, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
  Alhosan, N. (PNU, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
  Omar, S. (PNU, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
  
• Abstract:

  
  Background:
  Most children have dental caries
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  Tooth decay is potentiated by acid producing bacteria that convert sucrose into acids through a glycolytic process. Thus, tooth enamel begins to demineralize at a pH of 5.5. Substitution of sucrose with sugar alcohols have been used in candies as caries-preventive policy. However the increase in mutans

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