Influence of the Salt Mixture Added to Cariogenic Diets of Comparable Sucrose Content

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Abstract
The difference in cariogenicity of two diets containing comparable amounts of sucrose has been further investigated in a joint study conducted in the Emory and Harvard University laboratories. The overall results of the experiments indicate that the difference in cariogenicity of the two diets is related in some way to a difference in the salt mixtures customarily added to the diets. Certain inconsistencies in the results of the various experiments in the two laboratories suggest that the influence of the salt mixtures on the cariogenicity of the diets is of such a subtle nature that it may be overwhelmed by a factor or factors which presently are not recognized. The data of these experiments emphasize the complexity of the dental caries problem.
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