The Effects of Diets Containing Varying Percentages of Sucrose and Maize Starch on Caries in the Albino Rat

Green, R.M.; Hartles, R.L.

doi:10.1159/000259640

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“…The same trend was observed with the chocolate diets. Although animals fed a starchonly died have been reported to get the least dental caries [Green and Hartles, 1970;Huxley, 1977], in the present ex periment, the caries score of animals fed starch diet was significantly heigher than of the group fed erythritol. The cariogenicity of starch may be explained by the contam ination of mono-and disaccharides.…”

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Noncariogenicity of Erythritol as a Substrate

Hirasawa

Takeuchi

et al. 1992

Caries Res

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Erythritol is a sugar alcohol produced by Aureobasidium sp. from glucose. It is 75–80% as sweet as sucrose and is also nonhygroscopic. The aim of this study was to evaluate this sugar substitute from a cariological point of view. Erythritol was neither utilized as a substrate for the lactic acid production nor for plaque formation of mutans streptococci (serotypes a-h) and certain oral microorganisms. It was not utilized for water-insoluble glucan synthesis or cellular adherence by glucosyltransferase from Streptococcus mutans PS-14 (c) and Streptococcus sobrinus 6715 (g). Finally, a significantly lower caries score (3.1 ± 0.5; mean ± SEM) was observed in specific pathogen-free rats infected with S. sobrinus 6715 and fed with a diet containing 26% erythritol, as compared to control rats fed with a diet containing 26% sucrose (60.5 ± 2.0). Also, rats provided a diet containing 56% erythritol chocolate (23.8% erythritol) and challenged with S. mutans PS-14 exhibited a significantly lower caries score (6.7 ± 0.8) compared to the sucrose chocolate group (82.8 ± 2.8). The main conclusion from this study is therefore that erythritol is a promising sugar substitute from a cariological point of view.

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Noncariogenicity of Erythritol as a Substrate

Hirasawa

Takeuchi

et al. 1992

Caries Res

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“…Shaw (1979) found that five times as much sugar was needed to reach the same level of caries when the base diet was high fat as opposed to high starch. The conflicting results of other animal studies appear to be due to differences in base diets and to whether or not the animals have been superinfected with S. mutans (Green & Hartles, 1970;Huxley, 1971Huxley, , 1977. Hefti & Schmid (1979) heavily superinfected their rats with S. mutans and Actinomyces viscosius and found that dental caries severity increased with increasing sugar concentration although the increase in severity fell with sugar concentrations above 40 %.…”

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The Relationship Between Diet, Nutrition and Dental Health: an Overview and Update for the 90s

Moynihan

1995

Nutr. Res. Rev.

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“…In conventional rats, this has been reported at 8% (Kreitzman and Klein, 1976) and 24% (Green and Hartles, 1970), and in gnotobiotic rats mono-infected with Streptococcus mutans at only 3% (Michalek et al, 1977). In the study by…”

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Enamel Demineralization by Mouthrinses Containing Different Concentrations of Sucrose

Tehrani¹,

Brudevold²,

Attarzadeh³

et al. 1983

J Dent Res

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Intra-oral enamel demineralization tests, involving rinsing with sucrose solutions (5, 1, 0.5, or 0.3%) at varying frequencies during a 1.5-hour period, showed that demineralization was a function of the total sugar dose (frequency of rinsing times concentration). Two rinses with a 5% solution caused demineralization, nine rinses were needed in the case of a 0.5% solution, and none occurred after nine rinses with a 0.3% solution. Remineralization was also observed and apparently occurred after exhaustion of the sucrose supply.

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The Effects of Diets Containing Varying Percentages of Sucrose and Maize Starch on Caries in the Albino Rat

Cited by 11 publications

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Noncariogenicity of Erythritol as a Substrate

Noncariogenicity of Erythritol as a Substrate

The Relationship Between Diet, Nutrition and Dental Health: an Overview and Update for the 90s

Enamel Demineralization by Mouthrinses Containing Different Concentrations of Sucrose

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