The Effect of Cow's Milk on Dental Caries in the Rat
SAMUEL DREIZEN 1,
JO G. DREIZEN 1, and
ROBERT E. STONE 1
1 Department of Nutrition and Metabolism, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois.
The role of non-fat dry cow's milk in experimental rat caries was determined from feeding tests in which the milk comprised 39 and 100 per cent by weight of the total diet. At the 100 per cent level, the milk was non-cariogenic for the rat. At the 39 per cent level, the milk had no appreciable effect on the cariogenicity of a high-carbohydrate, high-fat, low-protein diet.
Submitted on February 22, 1961
