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  • A Pilot Study into the Effect of Whisky, Wine and Beer Consumption on Tooth Surface Dissolution

    Author(s)
    Tadakamadla, Santosh Kumar
    Tadakamadla, Jyothi
    Tibdewal, Harish
    Duraiswamy, Prabu
    Kulkarni, Suhas
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Tadakamadla, Jyothi
    Tadakamadla, Santosh Kumar
    Year published
    2013
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    Abstract
    Aim: To assess the potential of acute alcohol consumption to dissolve tooth surfaces and to evaluate the difference in the dissolution potential of whisky, beer and wine. Methods: The study sample comprised 36 healthy male volunteers with mean age of 26.27 (SD-1.96) years (range 25-30 years). The study design involved randomly allocating the 36 individuals into three groups of alcohol consumption (whisky, beer, wine) with 12 subjects in each group. Two samples of paraffin stimulated whole saliva were collected, at baseline and immediately after consumption of alcohol. Saliva was subjected to chemical analysis for pH, ionic ...
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    Aim: To assess the potential of acute alcohol consumption to dissolve tooth surfaces and to evaluate the difference in the dissolution potential of whisky, beer and wine. Methods: The study sample comprised 36 healthy male volunteers with mean age of 26.27 (SD-1.96) years (range 25-30 years). The study design involved randomly allocating the 36 individuals into three groups of alcohol consumption (whisky, beer, wine) with 12 subjects in each group. Two samples of paraffin stimulated whole saliva were collected, at baseline and immediately after consumption of alcohol. Saliva was subjected to chemical analysis for pH, ionic calcium and inorganic phosphate. Results: There was a significant difference for mean change in salivary pH, calcium and inorganic phosphate between the three alcohol groups. A significant reduction in the mean pH was observed after consumption of any form of alcoholic drink (mean change=-1.34, p=0.0001). Beer consumers had highest reduction in mean pH (1.75) followed by the wine (1.13) and whisky consumers (1.12) (p=0.045 and p=0.087 respectively). Mean calcium (mean change=5.75, p=0.0001) and inorganic phosphate (mean change=8.42, p=0.003) concentration significantly increased in the whole study sample. Mean inorganic phosphate and calcium concentrations increased after consumption of whisky and wine while a drop in their concentrations was observed in beer consumers. Conclusions: Salivary pH decreased significantly in subjects belonging to all the three groups. In both whisky and wine groups, there was a rise in salivary inorganic phosphate concentration while only whisky was able to dissolve calcium from the tooth surfaces.
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    Journal Title
    Oral Health and Dental Management
    Volume
    12
    Issue
    3
    Publisher URI
    http://www.omicsonline.com/open-access/ArchiveOHDM/previousissue-oral-health-dental-management-open-access.php
    Subject
    Dentistry not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/56120
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