Orally Administered Probiotics Decrease <i>Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans</i> but Not Other Periodontal Pathogenic Bacteria Counts in the Oral Cavity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Front Pharmacol · 2021 · PMC8383782 · PMID 34447307

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fell short of significancep = 0.271not close (p > 0.1)

actinomycetemcomitans bacteria counts showed a tendency to decrease, but this difference fell short of significance between the probiotic-treated and the control groups (SMD: −0.16; 95% CI: −0.45–0.13; p = 0.271) with no significant heterogeneity (I 2 = 0.0%, p = 0.650).

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