Dental caries
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- Currently the treatment of dental caries is focused mainly on a surgical model of removing the carious tooth structure followed by replacement with a restorative material.
- EPIDEMIOLOGY OF DENTAL CARIES Dental caries is a destruction of enamel, dentin, or the cementum resulting from acid production by bacteria in dental plaque.
- Bratthall Dental caries is a demineralization of the tooth surface caused by bacteria.
- Dental caries is a preventable infectious disease.
- Dental caries is the most common of all diseases, second only to the common cold in prevalence.
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