Salivary levels of cariogenic bacterial species during orthodontic treatment with thermoplastic aligners or fixed appliances: a prospective cohort study.

Prog Orthod · 2018 · PMC6068060 · PMID 30066184

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Additionally, the interaction term of time with appliance was close to significance ( P = 0.08), which was further explored by stratified analyses ( Appendix ) and indicated that s-PlI variation through time differed between aligner patients (where it tended to decrease through time) and bracket patients (where it tended to increase through time).

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