Estudo sobre a influência da escovação dental na microbiota da placa dental de crianças [Title in english no available]

Abstract

Samples of dental plaque were collected from twenty-eigth children (7 to 12 years) after three periods of eight days under different conditions of oral hygiene: without toothbrushing, with normal toothbrushing and with instructed toothbrushing. After the weigth of the materlal was determined, decimal dilutions were made and spreads in: blood agar, Mitis-Salivarius agar, Mc-Carthy Snyder agar, Rogosa-lactate agar, Rogosa SL medium, Sabouraud agar and Tripticase Soy agar, for enumeration of, respectively, the most numerous cultivated organisms, Streptococus, Fusobacterium, Veilionella, Lactobacillus, Candida and organisms that store intrecellular polysaccharides of the amylopectin type. The obtained results didn’t present sifnificative diferences after the three periods os the experience.