Table 4.
Semiquantification of five given bacteria in 16 supragingival plaque samples.
| Subject | Subject | Subject | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Number of positive samples (%) | 9 | 10 | 11 | Number of positive samples (%) | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Number of positive samples (%) | Number of positive samples for all subjects (%) | |
| Low DMFT | Moderate DMFT | High DMFT | ||||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 12 | |||||
| S. mutans | — | 102 | 1 | 10 | 103 | 10 | 10 | 102 | 7 (87.5) | 10 | 10 | 1 | 3 (100) | 1 | 10 | 102 | 102 | 10 | 5 (100) | 15 (93.8) |
| S. sobrinus | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 (0.0) | — | — | — | 0 (0.0) | — | — | 105 | — | — | 1 (20.0) | 1 (6.3) |
| S. wiggsiae | — | — | — | — | 105 | — | — | 103 | 2 (25.0) | — | — | — | 0 (0.0) | — | — | 103 | 104 | — | 2 (40.0) | 4 (25.0) |
| Actinomyces species | 105 | 106 | 105 | 106 | 106 | 106 | 105 | 105 | 8 (100) | 106 | 106 | 105 | 3 (100) | 105 | 106 | 105 | 105 | 106 | 5 (100) | 16 (100) |
| V. parvula | 104 | 105 | 104 | 104 | 105 | 105 | 103 | 104 | 8 (100) | — | 102 | 102 | 2 (66.7) | 105 | 102 | 104 | 104 | 102 | 5 (100) | 15 (93.8) |
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| Number of positive bacterial species | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | ||||