1Senior lecturer, Department of Public Health Dentistry, People's College of Dental Sciences and Research centre, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
2Senior Resident, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, New Delhi, India.
3Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
The concept of health has prevailed for centuries and the dietary habits are changing with modernization. “Healthy eating” is perceived to be important and fruit juices are promoted aggressively as a “Health drink”.
1. To estimate endogenous pH and titratable acidity of four freshly prepared fruit juices. 2. To assess the effect of fruit juices on plaque pH in two groups. (DMFT=0 and DMFT≥1)
Forty Volunteers were divided into two groups based on caries experience. Endogenous pH and titratable acidity of fruit juices; pH of plaque samples collected at different time interval was assessed. Statistical analysis was done by using ANOVA and Tukey's post hoc.
Endogenous pH of all fruit juices was acidic. Titratable acidity was maximum for sweet lime. In group B for Mango and Sweet lime plaque pH was below critical value till 30 minutes.
All the fruit juices tested in present study were acidic in nature and reduced plaque pH below critical pH in caries group.
Fruit juice, Plaque pH, Dental caries, Acidogenic.
