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Description: Relationship between annual per capita sugar consumption and annual caries incidence in lower first molar teeth. Data based on 10,553 Japanese children whose individual teeth were monitored yearly from the age of 6 to 11 years of age. Data plotted on a log scale. (Adapted from (1960). "Studies on Caries Incidence in the First Molar in Relation with Amount of Sugar Consumption on Primary School Children in Kyoto". Okayama Igakkai Zasshi (Journal of Okayama Medical Association) 72 (1): 407–423. DOI:10.4044/joma1947.72.1_407.).
Title: Cavity numbers increase exponentially with sugar consumption
Credit: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4168053/ (16 September 2014). "A reappraisal of the quantitative relationship between sugar intake and dental caries: the need for new criteria for developing goals for sugar intake". BMC Public Health 14. DOI:10.1186/1471-2458-14-863. ISSN 1471-2458. Retrieved on 21 October 2018. (see PDF for copyleft)
Author: Aubrey Sheiham and W. Philip T. James
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