Saliva Dysfunction and Oral Microbial Changes among Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients with Dental Caries

Table 2

Oral hygiene survey of enrolled subjects.

	SLE	HC	Statistical Method
F (tooth brushing)			Mann-Whitney test
N (Fluorides toothpaste)		20	NULL
N (artificial saliva)			NULL
PI			Mann-Whitney test

Abbreviation. SLE-systemic lupus erythematosus; HC-Healthy control; N-Number of subject; F (tooth brushing)-the frequency of tooth brushing per day; N (Fluorides toothpaste)- number of subjects using fluorides toothpaste; N (artificial saliva)- number of subjects using artificial saliva. PI-plaque index; indicates .