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INDICATION'S on children aged 18 to 36 months, which they've found is the best age to immunize
MECHANISM OF ACTION Streptococcus mutans. That bacterium secretes the lactic acid that erodes tooth enamel; it also makes the stickum that helps to hold it to teeth in the form of plaque. working on a vaccine against the enzyme that makes the stickum that forms plaque.
OBSERVATION'S One of the problems with the two groups' work is the difficulty of funding clinical trials, Westphal reports. Ma says that makers of dental products "are not used to dealing with the idea of vaccines." Drugmakers, on the other hand, don't see caries as a major problem.

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