Table 1 Characteristics of study subjects

From: Dental plaque development on a hydroxyapatite disk in young adults observed by using a barcoded pyrosequencing approach

Subject

Age (yr)

Sex

Number of teeth

Number of DT

Number of DMFT

Salivary flow rate (ml/min)

Salivary buffering capacitya

E1

24

Male

29

0

9

1.2

Intermediate

E2

26

Male

28

0

16

1.1

High

E3

22

Female

26

0

10

0.8

High

E4

22

Female

28

1

11

1.2

High

E5

22

Male

32

0

12

1.8

High

E6

24

Male

31

0

10

2.0

High

E7

28

Male

32

0

14

0.5

Intermediate

E8

28

Male

32

0

13

1.4

High

E9

23

Female

27

2

19

0.5

Intermediate

E10

22

Female

31

3

11

1.8

High

F1

24

Male

29

0

0

1.5

High

F2

24

Male

28

0

0

1.2

High

F3

21

Female

29

0

0

0.8

Intermediate

F4

22

Male

28

0

0

2.4

High

F5

20

Male

27

0

0

0.8

High

F6

25

Male

32

0

0

1.3

High

F7

25

Male

27

0

0

1.3

High

F8

22

Female

32

0

0

1.0

Intermediate

F9

26

Male

32

0

0

2.5

High

  1. DT, decayed teeth; DMFT, decayed, missing and filled (caries experienced) teeth.
  2. aSalivary buffering capacity was evaluated using Dentbuff strip (Orion Diagnostica, Helsinki).