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Genetic aspects of dental caries [PDF]

Frontiers in Dental Medicine, 2022
Dental caries is a common chronic disease affecting humans in all age groups. Various factors can affect the formation of caries including demineralization and remineralization processes with oral flora; dietary and oral hygiene habits; salivary ...
Dilsah Cogulu, Ceren Saglam
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Fluoride in the drinking water and dental caries experience by tooth surface susceptibility among adults [PDF]

BMC Oral Health, 2021
Background Dental caries is the most prevalent non-communicable health condition globally. The surface-based susceptibility hierarchy indicates that surfaces in the same group have similar susceptibility to caries, where the most susceptible group ...
Lina Stangvaltaite-Mouhat, Alina Puriene, Indre Stankeviciene, Jolanta Aleksejuniene   +3 more
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Evaluation of the intensity and prevalence of dental caries in patients with dental fluorosis [PDF]

One Health & Risk Management, 2022
Introduction. Dental fluorosis is an endemic condition of hard dental tissue, caused by excessive exposure of the child's body to the action of fluoride during toot formation and mineralization.
Elena STEPCO, Maria PATRANAC
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DMF Index among Amelogenesis Imperfecta Patients: Systematic Review of the Literature

International Journal of Dentistry, 2021
Objectives. The aim of this study was to explore the literature in order to assess systematically the association between amelogenesis imperfecta (AI) and caries development and to evaluate the DMF index among AI patients. Basic Research Design.
Farah Kallel, Amel Labidi, Sana Bekri, Sinda Ammar, Sonia Ghoul, Lamia Mansour   +5 more
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Type 1 diabetes, glycemic traits, and risk of dental caries: a Mendelian randomization study

Frontiers in Genetics, 2023
Background: Regarding past epidemiological studies, there has been disagreement over whether type 1 diabetes (T1DM) is one of the risk factors for dental caries.
Li Tan, Meng-Mei Zhong, Ya-Qiong Zhao, Jie Zhao, Marie Aimee Dusenge, Yao Feng, Qin Ye, Jing Hu, Ze-Yue Ou-Yang, Ning-Xin Chen, Xiao-Lin Su, Qian Zhang, Qiong Liu, Hui Yuan, Min-Yuan Wang, Yun-Zhi Feng, Yue Guo   +16 more
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PRESENCE OF Streptococcus Mutans IN SALIVA AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH DENTAL CARIES: ANTIMICROBIAL SUSCEPTIBILITY OF THE ISOLATES

Universitas Scientiarum, 2004
Dental caries is a localized, transmissible, pathological infectious process that ends up in the destruction of hard dental tissue. Streptococcus mutans is considered to be the main cause of dental caries.
Fredy Gamboa, Mabel Estupiñan, Adriana Galindo   +2 more
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Weaker dental enamel explains dental decay. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Dental caries continues to be the most prevalent bacteria-mediated non-contagious disease of humankind. Dental professionals assert the disease can be explained by poor oral hygiene and a diet rich in sugars but this does not account for caries free ...
Alexandre R Vieira, Carolyn W Gibson, Kathleen Deeley, Hui Xue, Yong Li   +4 more
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Correlation between dermatoglyphics and dental caries in children: A case-control study

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020
Background: Dental caries is a microbiological disease affecting teeth which has both genetic as well as environmental factors. Dermatoglyphics is the study of fingerprint patterns and is also genetically determined.
Kishore Kumar Singh, Kumari Menka, Kumar Anand, Aashana Goel, Abhishek Dontulwar, Jagadish Prasad Rajguru   +5 more
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TINDAKAN PENCEGAHAN KARIES GIGI PADA SISWA SEKOLAH DASAR BERDASARKAN TEORI HEALTH BELIEF MODEL

Jurnal Promkes: The Indonesian Journal of Health Promotion and Health Education, 2018
Dental caries is one of the serious health problem in school age children. The maintenance of dental and oral health need to be done early in the prevention of dental caries.
Lidia Septianingtias Setiari, Muji Sulistyowati   +1 more
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Distribution and Antibiotic Resistance of Streptococci and Enterococci Isolated from Dental Caries and Healthy People

Journal of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2022
Introduction: Antimicrobial resistance is one of the most significant challenges globally that threatens our ability to treat infectious diseases.
Shahad Fadhil Al-Taie1, Muna T. Al- Musawi2, Zaid S. Rasheed3   +2 more
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