1) The counts of oral lactobacilli of new born babies, sucklings before dentition, infants with or without caries or the infants living in the area of fluorine-supply through the waterworks were made.
2) In the new born babies, the bacilli appeared 1 hour after birth.
3) The detection rate of bacilli seemed to be higher in the sucklings before dentition, who are fed with mother's, artificial or mixed milk. This seems to indicate that the lactose in milk promote the development and multiplication of bacilli.
4) The bacilli were also detectable in the most cases of the infants with caries, but in these cases the count of bacilli was not always proprotional to the number of carious teeth.
5) The bacilli were not detectable in 57.6% of the infants without carious teeth, and even in the cases in which the bacilli were detectable, the counts were 20 or so.
6) In comparing the infants living within the limit of fluolinesupply through the waterworks with those living without this limit, no difference between the counts of lactobacilli in the two groups was seen. This will indicate that the fluoline-supply has no remarkable effect on the oral lactobacilli.
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