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Critical Reviews in Oral Biology & Medicine
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4(3):351-356 (1993)     Crit Rev Oral Biol Med
© 1993 SAGE Publications

An Epidemiologic Perspective of Saliva Flow Rates as Indicators of Susceptibility to Oral Disease

Ronald J. Billings, DDS, MSD

Eastman Dental Center, 625 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620

Catastrophic hyposalivation significantly increases susceptibility to dental caries in dentate individuals and may cause the expression or exacerbation of other oral diseases/disorders as well. The effect of subcatastrophic hyposalivation on susceptibility to caries or other diseases/disorders is less well understood. The aim of this study (part of a larger study on the prevalence of hyposalivation) was to determine the prevalence and to measure the association of oral pathologic conditions with unstimulated and stimulated whole saliva flow rates.

Only 6.3% of all study participants had significantly diminished unstimulated (<0.05 ml/min) and stimulated (<0.50 ml/ min) saliva flow rates. A total of 15 individuals were encountered with oral pathologic lesions and none of these lesions were associated with hyposalivation. Although the prevalence of coronal caries, root surface caries, abrasion, and erosion tended to increase as salivary flow decreased, when the effect of age was considered no significant differences were present. These data suggest that low saliva flow rates alone, at least from an epidemiologic perspective, do not have a clinically relevant effect on susceptibility to oral diseases/disorders.

Key Words: saliva flow • hyposalivation • dental caries • risk indicators.

Critical Reviews in Oral Biology & Medicine, Vol. 4, No. 3, 351-356 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/10454411930040031301
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