Dental Caries in the Cotton Rat XIV. Further Studies of Caries Production by Natural Diets with Especial Reference to the Role of Minerals, Fat, and the Stage of Refinement of Cereals

Nutrition and dental decay

“…Energyfoods. As long ago as 1954, Constant et al (1954) demonstrated in the cotton-rat model that oat hulls included in the diet exerted an anticaries effect. This activity was subsequently confirmed in a number of other rodents, but it has never been tested in the human subject and, in view of the complex problems associated with human long-term dietary studies, it is unlikely that it ever will be.…”