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A reappraisal of the quantitative relationship between sugar intake and dental caries: the need for new criteria for developing goals for sugar intake

Sheiham, A; James, WP; (2014) A reappraisal of the quantitative relationship between sugar intake and dental caries: the need for new criteria for developing goals for sugar intake. BMC Public Health , 14 , Article 863. 10.1186/1471-2458-14-863. Green open access

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Abstract

There is a clear relation between sugars and caries. However, no analysis has yet been made of the lifetime burden of caries induced by sugar to see whether the WHO goal of 10% level is optimum and compatible with low levels of caries. The objective of this study was to re-examine the dose-response and quantitative relationship between sugar intake and the incidence of dental caries and to see whether the WHO goal for sugar intake of 10% of energy intake (E) is optimum for low levels of caries in children and adults.

Type: Article
Title: A reappraisal of the quantitative relationship between sugar intake and dental caries: the need for new criteria for developing goals for sugar intake
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-863
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-863
Language: English
Additional information: © 2014 Sheiham and James; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
Keywords: Adult, Aged, Child, Dental Caries, Dentistry, Diet, Carbohydrate-Restricted, Dietary Sucrose, Fluorides, Humans, Incidence, Japan, Outcome Assessment (Health Care), Public Health, Toothpastes
UCL classification: UCL
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1471486
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