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Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2017 Dental caries is a biofilm-mediated, sugar-driven, multifactorial, dynamic disease that results in the phasic demineralization and remineralization of dental hard tissues. Caries can occur throughout life, both in primary and permanent dentitions, and can damage the tooth crown and, in later life, exposed root surfaces. The balance between pathological
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Lancet, The, 2007 Dental caries, otherwise known as tooth decay, is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases of people worldwide; individuals are susceptible to this disease throughout their lifetime. Dental caries forms through a complex interaction over time between acid-producing bacteria and fermentable carbohydrate, and many host factors including teeth and ...
Amid Ibrahim Ismail
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BMC Oral Health, 2023 Background The aim of the scoping review was to identify and synthesize the available literature concerning the relationship between the status of refugees, migrants, and internally displaced persons (IDPs) and Early Childhood Caries (ECC) as it relates ...
Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan +12 more
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A scoping review on the links between sustainable development goal 14 and early childhood caries
BMC Oral Health, 2023 Background The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14 addresses life below the waters, an important source of protein and contributor to global food security and economic development.
Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan +13 more
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Relationship between parental locus of control and caries experience in preschool children - cross-sectional survey [PDF]
, 2008 Background: Due to high prevalence and serious impacts, childhood caries represents a public health issue. Behavioural risk factors such as locus of health control have been implicated in the development of the disease; however their association with ...
Hynek Pikhart +11 more
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Oral Health Literacy and its Determinants in Young Couples
Frontiers in Dentistry, 2023 Objectives: Oral health literacy (OHL) is an interplay of cultural, social and individual factors and plays an effective role in public health promotion.
Maryam Fazli +3 more
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Grouping of tooth surfaces by susceptibility to caries: a study in 5-16 year-old children [PDF]
, 2004 Background The decline in caries has slowed and this may be indicative of variation in the susceptibility of differing teeth to caries. This study tests the hypothesis that in children, there are groups of tooth sites that exhibit differences in caries ...
Sheiham, A +5 more
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Development, Methodology and Potential of the New Universal Visual Scoring System (UniViSS) for Caries Detection and Diagnosis [PDF]
, 2009 Given the limitations of adjunct caries detection and diagnostic tools, e.g., imperfect validity and reproducibility, as well as the difficulties in controlling all possible confounding factors, the need for an objective visual caries detection and ...
Inka Goddon +15 more
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BMC Medical Education, 2021 Background Motivation triggers all human activities including learning and lack of career motivation can lead to decreased efficiency. This study assessed the association between academic burnout and career choice motivation in senior dental students ...
Simin Z. Mohebbi +5 more
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A Model for the Analysis of Caries Occurrence in Primary Molar Tooth Surfaces [PDF]
, 2012 Recently methods of caries quantification in the primary dentition have moved away from summary ‘whole mouth’ measures at the individual level to methods based on generalised linear modelling (GLM) approaches or survival analysis approaches. However, GLM
Stephenson, John +1 more
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