Effectiveness of decontamination protocols when analyzing ancient DNA preserved in dental calculus [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Ancient DNA analysis of human oral microbial communities within calcified dental plaque (calculus) has revealed key insights into human health, paleodemography, and cultural behaviors.
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Disease activation maps for subgingival dental calculus identification based on intelligent dental optical coherence tomography [PDF]
Translational Biophotonics, 2021 During the treatment of periodontitis, removal of dental calculus is essential but still tricky despite developments of several imaging modalities. In this research, we propose a novel approach to provide an intuitive guidance, to automatically detect ...
Tien‐Yu Hsiao +4 more
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Dental calculus: A repository of bioinformation indicating diseases and human evolution [PDF]
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2022 Dental calculus has long been considered as a vital contributing factor of periodontal diseases. Our review focuses on the role of dental calculus as a repository and discusses the bioinformation recently reported to be concealed in dental calculus from ...
Qinyang Li +9 more
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Microbial differences between dental plaque and historic dental calculus are related to oral biofilm maturation stage [PDF]
Microbiome, 2019 Background Dental calculus, calcified oral plaque biofilm, contains microbial and host biomolecules that can be used to study historic microbiome communities and host responses. Dental calculus does not typically accumulate as much today as historically,
Irina M. Velsko +10 more
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Recent advances in the pathogenesis and prevention strategies of dental calculus [PDF]
npj Biofilms and MicrobiomesDental calculus severely affects the oral health of humans and animal pets. Calculus deposition affects the gingival appearance and causes inflammation.
Yu Wei +8 more
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Oral screening of dental calculus, gingivitis and dental caries through segmentation on intraoral photographic images using deep learning [PDF]
BMC Oral HealthObjective Intraoral photographic images are instrumental in the early screening and clinical diagnosis of oral diseases. In addition, people have been trying to apply artificial intelligence to these images.
Yi Liu +4 more
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Reactivity of aragonite with dicalcium phosphate facilitates removal of dental calculus [PDF]
Journal of Materials Science: Materials in MedicineDental calculus, a main contributor of periodontal diseases, is mostly composed of inorganic calcium phosphate species such as dicalcium phosphate, whitlockite, octa calcium phosphate, and hydroxyapatite.
Amir Elhadad +7 more
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Metagenomic analysis of dental calculus in ancient Egyptian baboons [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2019 Dental calculus, or mineralized plaque, represents a record of ancient biomolecules and food residues. Recently, ancient metagenomics made it possible to unlock the wealth of microbial and dietary information of dental calculus to reconstruct oral ...
Claudio Ottoni +7 more
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International Journal of Dentistry, 2021 The growing epidemic of chronic diseases afflicting both developed and developing countries is related to diet and lifestyle. The current dietary assessment still has many constraints, particularly related to the objectivity of data gathering.
Ignatius Setiawan +4 more
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Dental calculus evidence of Taï Forest Chimpanzee plant consumption and life history transitions [PDF]
, 2015 Dental calculus (calcified dental plaque) is a source of multiple types of data on life history. Recent research has targeted the plant microremains preserved in this mineralised deposit as a source of dietary and health information for recent and past ...
Robert C. Power +4 more
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