Dietary pattern and dental caries in 19-year-old adolescents subjected to preventive measures focused on oral hygiene and/or fluorides.
Dietary habits and dental caries were analysed in 95 19-year-old Swedish adolescents who had been subjected to different preventive measures during their late teens. A 24-hour recall was used and showed that the intakes of milk and milk products, meat, fish and eggs accorded with recommended norms but not those of vegetables, fruits and berries, and potatoes and root vegetables. Only 6% of the subjects had eaten the recommended three principal meals during the day tested. At the end of the trial, only weak or moderate correlations were found between snacks, including sucrose snacks, and selected clinical variables. Subjects who did not develop new carious lesions during the experimental 2 years had fewer risk factors, defined as the most negative values (quartile limit) for sucrose snack consumption, tooth cleaning score, lactobacillus count, saliva secretion rate and saliva buffer capacity, than those who developed one or more new lesions. During the experimental period, with an overall low caries incidence, no single factor tested for presumed risk was found to be the discriminating factor for occurrence of dental caries.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D003773:Dental Plaque / Q000209:etiology; D003777:Dental Prophylaxis; D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates / Q000008:administration & dosage; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005459:Fluorides / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005891:Gingivitis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D009067:Mouthwashes; D009910:Oral Hygiene; D013395:Sucrose / Q000008:administration & dosage
D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates; D009067:Mouthwashes; D013395:Sucrose; D005459:Fluorides