DMFT index assessment, plaque pH, and microbiological analysis in XXXX with special health care needs, India.

@entity1 @entity6586 @entity527
AIM: To assess the DMFT index of @entity1 with Special Health Care Needs (SHCN) in Navi Mumbai. To correlate the DMFT index with @entity6586 count in the supragingival bacterial biofilm and with plaque pH. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Dental examination of 158 @entity1 aged 5-18 years was conducted to determine the DMFT/dmft index. @entity527 samples were collected from the buccal surfaces of all teeth. The samples were inoculated in mitis salivarius bacitracin agar medium and incubated at 37  C for 48 h. @entity527 was collected from interproximal sites of the molar area (preferably mandibular) for conducting plaque pH test. Chi-square test and Pearson's correlation were used to find the significance of the study parameters on categorical scale between the two groups. RESULTS: The mean DMFT recorded was 4.90    4.63 and the mean dmft recorded was 1.77    3.14. Mean number of @entity6586 colony-forming units found was 2.961 * 10(4). Mean plaque pH recorded was 6.2. CONCLUSION: No statistically significant correlation was found between the DMFT index with the number of @entity6586 and plaque pH.
