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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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Compositional Changes and Comparative Analysis of Oral Microbial Community During the Formation of Canine Dental Calculus [PDF]
AnimalsPeriodontal disease remains a prevalent clinical condition in dogs, significantly impacting the quality of life of affected animals. Dental calculus is closely associated with periodontal disease, primarily because it serves as a reservoir for dental ...
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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.
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Ancient dental calculus preserves signatures of biofilm succession and interindividual variation independent of dental pathology. [PDF]
PNAS Nexus, 2022 Dental calculus preserves oral microbes, enabling comparative studies of the oral microbiome and health through time. However, small sample sizes and limited dental health metadata have hindered health-focused investigations to date.
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Exploring the potential of dental calculus to shed light on past human migrations in Oceania [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe Pacific islands and Island Southeast Asia have experienced multiple waves of human migrations, providing a case study for exploring the potential of ancient microbiomes to study human migration. We perform a metagenomic study of archaeological dental
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Auxiliary Diagnosis of Dental Calculus Based on Deep Learning and Image Enhancement by Bitewing Radiographs [PDF]
BioengineeringIn the field of dentistry, the presence of dental calculus is a commonly encountered issue. If not addressed promptly, it has the potential to lead to gum inflammation and eventual tooth loss.
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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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Metagenomic analysis of ancient dental calculus reveals unexplored diversity of oral archaeal Methanobrevibacter [PDF]
Microbiome, 2021 Background Dental calculus (mineralised dental plaque) preserves many types of microfossils and biomolecules, including microbial and host DNA, and ancient calculus are thus an important source of information regarding our ancestral human oral microbiome.
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