Relation between saliva and caffeine consumption
Saliva is mostly made of water, in addition it contains important substances that a body needs to digest food and protect the oral cavity. Hypo-salvation can lead to many anomalies such as, caries, mucous membrane candidiasis, difficult in speech, mastication and deglutition. Many factors causes hypo-salvation, one such is caffeine consumption. Subjects (n=11) were healthy volunteers on no prescription medications who were regular coffee drinkers. They were informed of the protocol and were asked to sign Informed Consent. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at the University. This was a randomized, controlled, double blinded crossover trial of caffeine effects on whole stimulated and unstimulated salivary production. Subjects were randomly (coin toss) assigned to receive 200 milliliters (ml) of either regular (180 milligrams (mg) caffeine) or decaffeinated (3.6 mg caffeine) instant coffee. Read more>>>>>>>>>>> ...