ArticleCureus2022
Comparative Evaluation of Antibacterial Efficacy of Emblica Officinalis Lollipop Against Streptococcus Mutans Counts in Institutionalized Visually Impaired Children.
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- When oral health affects overall health: biofilms, dental infections, and emerging antimicrobial strategies.Infection · 2025Review
- Investigating Potential Anti-Bacterial Natural Products Based on Ayurvedic Formulae Using Supervised Network Analysis and Machine Learning Approaches.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Plant-Derived Compounds: A Promising Tool for Dental Caries Prevention.Current issues in molecular biology · 2024Review
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Abstract
Background Among the 1.21 billion population of India, 26.8 million individuals have disabilities, and around five million are visually impaired. These children encounter problems related to oral health maintenance, thus further leading to dental problems. Even though Pediatric dentists treat visually impaired children for their oral problems, they emphasize mainly on the prevention of dental caries. Dental caries has a multifactorial etiology, and dentists are unable to find a complete solution for its prevention. However, reducing
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