TASTE PERCEPTION A PREDICTOR OF DENTAL CARIES: A RESEARCH BASED ANALYSIS

Author:

Paul Deepashree1

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 signicant 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 signicant. Clinical Conclusion: applications of ndings from this study indicate that taste perception can be used as an early indicator of dental caries.

Publisher

World Wide Journals

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