Dental caries - A complete changeover (Part I)

Dental caries.

Dental caries.

Dental caries is one of the most prevalent diseases afflicting mankind. It reached a peak in the 1950s but has been declining drastically in recent years in children and young adults. This article describes the three contributing factors in dental caries: microbial plaque, tooth susceptibility, and diet, and discusses practical preventive measures which help to reduce caries incidence. Some of ...

Part I – Adhesion On Dental Substrates

Dental Caries Vaccine: A Review

Dental caries is an infectious microbiologic disease of the teeth that results in localized dissolution and destruction of the calcified tissue. Dental caries is a mulitifactorial disease, which is caused by host, agent, and environmental factors. Cariogenic micro-organisms enter the dental biofilm early in life and can subsequently emerge, under favorable environmental conditions, to cause dis...

Delta-Complete Reachability Analysis (Part I)

We give a new framework for safety verification of nonlinear hybrid systems, based on deltadecidability of first-order logic formulas over the real numbers. We use expressive logic formulas (which can contain nonlinear ODEs with no analytic solutions) to encode bounded model checking and invariant-based reasoning. Based on the encoding, we solve bounded reachability and invariant validation pro...