METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF CARIES IN CHILDREN Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC G01N33/48 A61B10/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: implementing the method for prediction of caries in children involves studying a previous medical history and analysing a child's fasting non-simulated oral fluid. The previous medical history is used to acquire a child's breastfeeding length (BL), completed months, an efficiency ratio (ER) of one or more fluorine-containing, vitamin, immunomodulatory food additives and/or probiotics for the first three years of child's life; if the above are used, the efficiency ratio is assigned with a numerical value of 1, and if not used, the assigned numerical value is 0. The child's non-stimulated oral fluid is measured to determine the calcium (Ca) concentration in mMole/l and the phosphorous (P) concentration in mMole/l to be related (Ca/P), as well as the lactoferrine level (LL), mcg/ml. That is followed by calculating a prediction coefficient (PC) by formula: CP=1.44-2.28×(Ca/P)-0.07×BL-0.12×ER+0.16×LL, and if observing the condition CP≥0.7, caries of temporary teeth with uncompleted mineralisation is predicted in the child.

EFFECT: method provides the high-reliability prediction of caries of temporary teeth with uncompleted mineralisation in the child, and does not take a long time for the examination.

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