Can a regimen of chewing sucrose-free gum after meals reduce the incidence of caries and remineralise white spot lesions (demineralised and non-cavitated incipient caries) in a population with a moderate incidence of caries?
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- School of Dental Science, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC.
Correspondence: c.tsao@unimelb.edu.au
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