salivary flow rate, ph, and concentrations of calcium, phosphate, and siga in brazilian pregnant and non-pregnant women唾液流率、ph值和浓度的钙,磷酸盐,siga巴西怀孕和怀孕妇女.pdfVIP

Head Face Medicine BioMed Central Research Open Access Salivary flow rate, pH, and concentrations of calcium, phosphate, and sIgA in Brazilian pregnant and non-pregnant women Maria I Rockenbach*†1, Sandra A Marinho†2, Elaine B Veeck†1, Laura Lindemann†3 and Rosemary S Shinkai†4 Address: 1Department of Oral Surgery, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2Graduate Program in Oral Medicine, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 3Private practice, Porto Alegre, Brazil and 4Department of Prosthodontics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil Email: Maria I Rockenbach* - ivetrock@pucrs.br; Sandra A Marinho - san_mar2000@.br; Elaine B Veeck - ebveeck@.br; Laura Lindemann - laura_lindemann@; Rosemary S Shinkai - rshinkai@pucrs.br * Corresponding author †Equal contributors Published: 28 November 2006 Received: 20 February 2006 Accepted: 28 November 2006 Head Face Medicine 2006, 2:44 doi:10.1186/1746-160X-2-44 This article is available from: /content/2/1/44 © 2006 Rockenbach et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Studies on salivary variables and pregnancy in Latin America are scarce. This study aimed to compare salivary flow rate, pH, and concentrations of calcium, phosphate, and sIg