The role of salivary sIgA as protection for dental caries activity in Indonesian children

The aim of this study is to asses the relationship between the level of sIgA and dental caries experience in healthy children who are 6- to 9-years-old from Indonesia. The case-control study is conducted to determine the protective role of salivary secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA) levels in the stimulated whole saliva of dental caries-active and caries-free children. This research was done by stimulating the whole saliva which had been collected from 6- to 9-years-old children with the index ≥3 of 30 children as the caries-active children group and 30 children with