Effect of chewing an apple on dental plaque removal and on salivary bacterial viability

• Susana Rubido ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Susana Rubido, Lucía García-Caballero, Pedro Diz

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical-Surgical Dentistry Research Group (OMEQUI), Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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• Lucía García-Caballero ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Susana Rubido, Lucía García-Caballero, Pedro Diz

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lucia.garcia.caballero@usc.es

  Affiliation Medical-Surgical Dentistry Research Group (OMEQUI), Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0116-1263

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• María Teresa Abeleira ,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Medical-Surgical Dentistry Research Group (OMEQUI), Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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• Jacobo Limeres ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Medical-Surgical Dentistry Research Group (OMEQUI), Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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• Marta García ,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Medical-Surgical Dentistry Research Group (OMEQUI), Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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• Pedro Diz

  Contributed equally to this work with: Susana Rubido, Lucía García-Caballero, Pedro Diz

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical-Surgical Dentistry Research Group (OMEQUI), Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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