[Preliminary study of the clinical indices for halitosis].
OBJECTIVE
To explore the possibility of using other clinical indices to detect halitosis in stead of organoleptic test(OST). MEATHODS: 56 medical students were chosen as the subjects. Spearman test and Pearson test were used to analyze the relationship between OST results and other indices.


RESULTS
It was found that the value of volatile sulfur compounds (VSC) (r(Max)=0.537,P<0.01) rStable=0.572,P<0.01), pH of the saliva(r=0.344,P<0.01), cadaverine (r=0.352,P<0.01), OHI-S (r=0.323,P<0.05), colonies of facultative anaerobe from saliva(r=0.398,P<0.01) and tongue dorsum(r=0.293,P<0.05), colonies of anaerobe from tongue dorsum(r=0.473,P<0.01) correlated positively with OST score, but the coefficients were all low.


CONCLUSIONS
It is not practical and feasible to replace OST with any other single index at present.
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Department of Preventive and Pediatric Dentistry, College of Stomatology, Ninth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200011, China.
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D002103:Cadaverine / Q000032:analysis; D006209:Halitosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D012463:Saliva; D013457:Sulfur Compounds / Q000032:analysis; D014059:Tongue / Q000382:microbiology
D013457:Sulfur Compounds; D002103:Cadaverine