Does chewing sucrose-free chewing gum after meals  reduce the development of carious lesions?

Tsao, Claudine E; Morgan, Michael V

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb06583.x

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Statistics, epidemiology and research design

Can a regimen of chewing sucrose-free gum after meals reduce the incidence of caries and remineralise white spot lesions (demineralised and non-cavitated incipient caries) in a population with a moderate incidence of caries?

School of Dental Science, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC.

Correspondence: c.tsao@unimelb.edu.au

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