Table 3.

Determination of the colony-forming units (CFU) per milliliter of saliva prior to and after saline pulling and oil pulling for subjects A, B, and C

Subject	Pulling with	Day	CFU/ml prior to/after	Comment
A	Saline	1	2.1 × 108/4.1 × 108	No reduction
		2	2.2 × 108/1.0 × 108	Reduction: 55%
		3	2.0 × 108/5.1 × 108	No reduction
	Oil	1	2.9 × 108/2.8 × 108	Reduction: 3%
		2	4.5 × 108/3.3 × 108	Reduction: 27%
		3	1.4 × 109/1.1 × 108	Reduction: 92%
B	Saline	1	2.6 × 108/2.4 × 108	Reduction: 8%
		2	8.1 × 108/2.1 × 108	Reduction: 74%
		3	2.3 × 108/3.4 × 108	No reduction
	Oil	1	6.0 × 108/8.0 × 107	Reduction: 87%
		2	6.0 × 108/8.9 × 107	Reduction: 85%
		3	4.3 × 108/1.6 × 108	Reduction: 63%
C	Saline	1	2.2 × 108/1.6 × 108	Reduction: 27%
		2	1.4 × 108/1.4 × 108	No reduction
		3	2.4 × 108/1.8 × 108	Reduction: 25%
	Oil	1	8.2 × 108/2.0 × 108	Reduction: 76%
		2	4.3 × 108/1.1 × 108	Reduction: 74%
		3	6.4 × 108/4.5 × 107	Reduction: 93%