Affiliation:
1. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Dentistry. Shri Ramkrishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Durgapur
Abstract
This is an original research paper based on clinical ndings in pediatric population of 6-14 years age group from a regular
dental OPD over 1-1.5 years duration. 6-n-propylthiouracil or PROP an anti-thyroid medication has been used to
discriminate non-tasters from medium tasters, and supertasters. Sugar consumption has always been co related to dental caries. It's a new horizon
when we can identify early in life the ones more prone on basis of their taste perception. 122 Candidates were selected Materials and methods:
randomly from a dental OPD in the age group of 6-14 years and their taste perception and dental caries experience were documented after taking
parents written consent. Caries experience of supertasters was found to be much Results: less compared to non-tasters and tasters with mean
DMFT of 0.48, 1.45 and 1.38 respectively. The result was statistically highly signicant with a p value of 0.0034. Mean deft was found to be 4.4,
2.2 and 0.75 among non-tasters, tasters and supertasters respectively with p<0.0001 which is statistically highly signicant. Clinical Conclusion:
applications of ndings from this study indicate that taste perception can be used as an early indicator of dental caries.
Subject
History,Sociology and Political Science,Ophthalmology,General Medicine,Ophthalmology,General Medicine,Ophthalmology,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine,Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation,Education,Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management,Sociology and Political Science,Industrial relations,Infectious Diseases,Virology,Rheumatology,Rheumatology
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