The Antimony pH Electrode and its Role in the Assessment and Interpretation of Dental Plaque pH

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The papers in this symposium by Schachtele and Jensen,1 Edgar,2 and Firestone3 have dealt mainly with the in-dwelling and the plaque sampling/in vitro electrode meth-ods of measuring intra-oral plaque pH, particularly as they relate to changes in pH associated with the ingestion of different foods. Largely omitted has been the role that the antimony touch-type electrode has played in plaque pH measurement and the considerable amount of information it has generated over the approximately 40 years that plaque pH has been measured with electrodes. Also omitted have been major aspects of interpretation of dental plaque pH and its significance. This article, therefore, has attempted to make up for some of these deficiencies. Major studies on plaque pH with the antimony pH electrode.