The effects of naringenin and a high fat diet on dental caries in rats
Date
1986
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Venegas, Magnolia Goncalves
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OA Version
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Abstract
The principal aim of the present study was to compare the effects of naringenin in a normal diet with that of a high fat diet, in the development of dental caries in the young rat. Forty-four male white albino rats of Charles River strain were divided into four dietary groups: basal diet, basal diet with naringenin, high fat diet and high fat diet with naringenin. At the end of forty days the animals were sacrificed and their molar teeth were examined for the presence of carious lesions. The results revealed that supplementing the diet with naringenin did not produce statistically significant differences in the number of carious lesions or in their sulcular depth. A comparison of the high lipid group with the control group, shows that both the sulcular depth and the extension of lesions were significantly lower in the lipid group. Sulcular lesion were found to be associated with accumulations of debris that was observed, in most cases, in the deep occlusal grooves or in the major sulci.
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Thesis (M.Sc.D.)--Boston University, Henry M. Goldman School of Graduate Dentistry, 1986 (Pediatric Dentistry)
Bibliography : leaves 26-36.
Thesis (M.Sc.D.)--Boston University, Henry M. Goldman School of Graduate Dentistry, 1986 (Pediatric Dentistry)
Bibliography : leaves 26-36.
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