Prevention dental caries' candy

The BasicMints, sweet chewing developed in the United States, has proven its effects through a study published in the Journal of Clinical Dentistry.

The innovation of this product held at CaviStat, a substance without fluoride designed by researchers at the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Stony Brook.

Its effectiveness has been tested in a study involving 200 children in Venezuela, aged 10 to 11 years.
The participants were separated into two groups. The first group received four daily chewing gum based CaviStat taken each time after brushing teeth.
The other children, they received daily candy without this new substance, or sugar.
One year after the start of the study, the results showed that children who chewed the product containing 61.7% showed CaviStat caries and less at the level of molars that children in the placebo group.

The CaviStat was patented. The owners of the license, a start-up of Stony Brook University named Ortek Therapeuthics, Inc., Plan to file an application with the U.S. food and medicine.
The use of this new candy anti-caries has not yet been approved in the United States.