HUBUNGAN pH SALIVA DAN SEKRESI SALIVA TERHADAPANGKA KARIES PADA USIA LANSIADI WISMA LANSIA HARAPAN ASRISEMARANG

Caries is a serious problem in dental and oral health. Many factors influence, one of which is saliva, both pH of saliva and salivary secretion. The lower the salivary secretion, the accumulation of plaque will increase and cause the salivary pH to decrease so that caries occurs. This study aims to determine the relationship of salivary pH and salivary secretion to the rates of DMF-T dental caries in the elderly at the Harapan Asri Elderly Hospital Semarang.The sample in this study amounted to 33 respondents, This type of research is analytic withdesign cross-sectional and statistical test Kendall-Tau, the sampling technique is purposive sampling technique and uses analysis univariate, and bivariate.The results of this study can be concluded that there is a relationship between salivary pH and salivary secretion in terms of DMF-T caries numbers in the elderly with p-Value ,