Streptococcus salivarius M18 and Improved Cariogram Score

• Cariogram outcome after 90 days of oral treatment with Streptococcus salivarius M18 in children at high risk for dental caries: results of a randomized, controlled study.

  • 2015-10-03
  • RCT
  • Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dentistry 7
  • • Francesco Di Pierro
    • Alberto Zanvit
    • Piero Nobili
    • Paolo Risso
    • Carlo Fornaini

  • PubMed: 26491371
  • DOI: 10.2147/ccide.s93066

  2 Insights on

  • Improved Cariogram Score

  • High evidence

  the use of salivarius M18 increases the chances of avoiding new dental caries development in children, and its application could be proposed as a new tool in the dentist's armory to be adopted in subjects considered at high risk on the basis of their Cariogram outcome

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small