Observations on Lactobacillus Counts and Dental Caries in Mental Patients During Insulin Coma Therapy

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Abstract
Oral clinical and bacteriological examinations were per- formed on a few mental patients before and after insulin hypo-glycemia therapy. The sucrose soln. with which coma was usually terminated had no statistically significant effect upon either the incidence of new clinical caries or variations of the lactobacillus count during the period of treatment. Patients whose salivary lactobacillus counts were below 10,000 organisms per ml. required less than the avg. dose of insulin for induction of coma. This finding was statistically significant.