Therapeutic Modifications to the Mineral Ion Composition of Dental Plaque
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Caries Research
- Vol. 18 (2) , 103-110
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000260757
Abstract
A mouth rinse containing calcium, phosphate, fluoride, urea and monofluorophosphate was used 12 times over 3 days by 15 young adults. The concentration of acid-extractable fluoride in 4-day-old plaque rose from 8.4 to 560 ng/mg dry weight. Plaque calcium increased from 4.1 to 42.5 μg/mg and phosphate from 3.9 to 22.7 μg/ mg. The ions are fixed in a form insoluble in saliva, probably as fluorhydroxyapatite, and thus are likely to have an extended caries-protective effect.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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