Salivary characteristics and dental caries experience in remote Indigenous children in Australia: a cross-sectional study

While associations between salivary characteristics and dental caries have been well studied, we are not aware of this being assessed in a remote Indigenous child population, where lifestyles may be different from urban children. Our aim was to assess associations between caries experience and putative biomarkers in saliva, accounting for oral hygiene and dietary habits.Children attending schools in an Indigenous community in remote north...