Dental Caries: An Introduction

Dry Rot

The word ‘caries’, latin meaning _____ implies slow disintegration of any biological hard tissue as a result of bacterial action

Oral Microorganisms

Dental caries is peculiarly a local disease, which involves destruction of hard tissues of the teeth by metabolites produced by _____

Nutritional Disorders

Tooth loss resulting in diminished chewing ability, which can lead to _____

Carbonated Hydroxyapatite

When acids are produced by bacteria interacting with local substrate, they diffuse into tooth enamel, parially dissolving the minerals from crystals and subsequently invading the tooth and the minerals are term _____

WHO

They defined caries as a localized posteruptive, pathological process of external origin involving softening of the hard tooth tissue and proceeding to the formation of a cavity