Effect of Probiotics Containing Lactobacillus paracasei SD1 on Salivary Mutans Streptococci and Lactobacilli in Orthodontic Cleft Patients: A Double-Blinded, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study.

Objective : (1) To investigate the effect of probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus paracasei SD1 on the level of salivary mutans streptococci and lactobacilli, and (2) the oral persistence of L. paracasei SD1 in orthodontically treated nonsyndromic cleft lip and palate patients. Design : Double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled study.

Felt needs of parents who have a 0- to 3-month-old child with a cleft lip and palate.

Objective: To describe the felt needs of parents who have children from birth to 3 months of age with a cleft lip and palate.

Design: Parents were interviewed using structured and semistructured questions at 1 week and 1, 2, and 3 months after birth.

Participants: Fifteen parents, including 12 mothers and three fathers, of patients with cleft lip and palate aged 0 to 3 months were interviewed.

Factors influencing early childhood caries of cleft lip and/or palate children aged 18 to 36 months in southern Thailand.

Objective: To clarify whether oral health care behavior or oral cleft status influences early childhood caries in southern Thailand cleft children.

Design: A comparative cross-sectional study.

Patients, Participants: A total of 138 southern Thai children aged 18 to 36 months comprised two groups of 69 participants, one with cleft lip and/or palate and controls with no cleft.