Volume : 6, Issue : 6, June - 2017
USE OF PROBIOTICS IN ORAL DISEASES
Dr. Kanupriya Gupta
Abstract :
<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Probiotics are microorganisms, basically bacteria, that when ingested would confer</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">health benefit beyond the basic nutrition. The microbes mostly involved are <i>Lactobacillus<o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><i><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">acidophilus</span></i><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> or cocci e.g. <i>Streptococcus salivarius, S. Lactis, Entrococcus faecium</i>, and<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">yeast e.g. <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i>, <i>Aspergillus nigere </i>and<i> Candida pintolopesii</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ingestion of probiotics in any form, such as in food stuff (cheese, yogurt, fermented<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">milk, fruit juice, or chewing gum) or contained in tablets and capsules, has been shown<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">to reduce the incidence of dental caries, to manage priodontitis, halitosis and oral<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">candidal infection. Probiotics act through competing with pathogenic microorganism<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">for adhesion sites and nutrients on the host surface. They are also able to stimulate the<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">immune system, secrete antimicrobial substances and alter the pH milieu of the host.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:200%"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">However, more research is still needed in this field.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Dr. Kanupriya Gupta, USE OF PROBIOTICS IN ORAL DISEASES, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : VOLUME-6 | ISSUE‾6 | JUNE-2017