Read the summary and the most important questions on Dental Caries The Disease and Its Clinical Management | 9781118935828 | Ole Fejerskov; Bente Nyvad; Edwina Kidd

• 1 Prologue

• 1.1 Introduction

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• What are the main causes for tooth loss in all contemporary populations?

  Caries and failed restorative care

• What are the traid (keyes) components for caries?

  The tooth, the diet and the microflora

• How came dental plaque and dental caries to be considered?

  As an oral biofilm and dental caries as a biofilm-induced demineralisation of the dental hard tissue

• What is the aim of the book dental caries?

  To present the dental student and the dental practioner with an update on the available knowledge about dental caries, and the consequences of this to its diagnosis, and how most appropriatly and cost effectively to control caries progression.

• Because of which inputs would remain caries unpredictable?

  
  - Variable exposure to fluoride
  - Times, lengths, frequencies, and types of sugar consumption
  - Quality of tooth cleaning
  - Fluctuations in salivary flow rates and composition
  - Quality and composition of biofilms
  - The behaviour of the individual, and
  - the societal context of the individual

• 2 Dental caries: what is it?

• 2.1 The disease

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• Why do dental caries lesions do not develop at the same rate in all parts of the mouth?

  Openings of the major salivary glands represent areas with a special salivary composition that favors a relative protection towards chemical dissolution because of buffering capacity and chemical composition of the secretory product

• Where does dental caries lesions result from?

  A shift in the ecology and metabolic activity of the biofilm

• What is important to understand from the oral biofilm?

  That it does not necessarily result in the development of clinically visible caries lesions

• What is preferable for in-situ models?

  For studying caries lesion development under controlled conditions have preferably to be located so that microbial stagnation areas are created

• How is the biofilm characterized?

  By continued microbial activity, resulting in metabolic events in the form of continuous, minute pH fluctuations