DENTAL CARIES IN THE COTTON EAT(27)

When fed under similar conditions, the whole grain cereals,corn, wheat and oats, were found to be less cariogenic in eachcase than their processed products a€” corn flakes, wheat flakeand oatmeal, respectively.Natural diets which contained processed cereals and only30% sugar were found to be more cariogenic than a syntheticdiet containing 67% sucrose. The reasons for this ratherunexpected finding have been discussed.A significant difference was not found between the cario-genicity of alkaline-ash and that of acid-ash foods under theexperimental conditions used.Changes in the appearance of the teeth and the cariouslesions, due to dietary ingredients, have been noted.ANDERSON, E. P., J. K. SMITH, C. A. ELVEHJEMANDP. H. PHILLIPS 1948 Dentalcaries in the cotton rat. X. The effect of fluidity o