%0 Journal Article %T Quantification and Correlation of Oral Candida with Caries Index Among Different Age Groups of School Children: A Case¨CControl Study %A BA Reginald %A BV Naidu %J Archive of "Annals of Medical and Health Sciences Research". %D 2016 %R 10.4103/2141-9248.181843 %X Dental caries is the most common infectious disease affecting humans and is the predominant cause of tooth loss in children. Although Candida's role in dental caries has been studied extensively, limited homogenous studies have been conducted and none have been found, that associate Candida with dental caries, while correlating it to different age groups %K Dental caries %K Decayed-Missing-Filled teeth %K Oral Candida %K Saliva %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866371/