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Stepwise regression confirmed the similar associations of DMFT with plaque prevalence in both high and low IgG antibody responders, but significant associations with only F score and BOP prevalence in high responders and with only PD and age in low responders.
A plaque marks the triangular green as the “Birthplace of American liberty” and a burial monument honors “The first victims to the sword of British tyranny and oppression.”
Despite few investigations of caries risk in 22-38 year old subjects compared with a younger or older group [ 7 ] , the association of DMFT with PL in this study agrees with that obtained from 35 year old Norwegians [ 3 ] . Plaque (simplified oral hygiene index measurement) accounted for 15% of the variance in number of decayed/filled teeth surfaces in that study, and for 19% of the DMFT variance within all 151 clinically examined subjects in this study (ignoring age, antibody and all other variables).
The fluoride concentrations of plaque and saliva are related to whether the drinking water is fluoridated [ 13 ] and to oral hygiene, which nearly always involves using a fluoridated dentrifice.
Sequence analysis of the TK coding region from all five plaque isolates identified a G nucleotide insertion in the homopolymeric hot-spot G7 tract at nucleotide 435, a common mutation present in other ACV rHSV isolates [ 18 19 ] . This base insertion produced a frame shift in the coding sequence, resulting in a loss of the ATP / nucleoside-binding site and the creation of a premature stop codon at amino acid 228 to encode a truncated 28 kD TK polypeptide.