Protection from tooth decay

Molecular Tooth Decay

Charles Darwin was intrigued with vestigial organs and, in fact, made them a part of his ‘‘long argument’’ for the existence of evolution in the natural world in Chapter 13 of On the Origin of Species. Now on the 150 anniversary of the publication of that seminal work, a study linking vestigial organs with molecular biology with paleontology has shown even more clearly how vestigial organs are ...

Silver microwires from treating tooth decay with silver diamine fluoride

1. Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, 1700 4th Street, QB3 Room 404, San Francisco, CA 94158 USA 2. Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, 1700 4th Street, QB3 Room 404, San Francisco, CA 94158 USA 3. Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road MS 2-400, B...

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Factors Associated with Specific Patterns of Tooth Decay 33

Dental caries affects most adults worldwide; however, the risk factors for dental caries do not necessarily exert their effects uniformly across all tooth surfaces. Instead, the actions of some risk factors may be limited to a subset of teeth/surfaces. Therefore, we used hierarchical clustering on tooth surface-level caries data for 1,068 Appalachian adults (ages 18-75 yrs) to group surfaces ba...

Hair keratin mutations in tooth enamel increase dental decay risk.

Tooth enamel is the hardest substance in the human body and has a unique combination of hardness and fracture toughness that protects teeth from dental caries, the most common chronic disease worldwide. In addition to a high mineral content, tooth enamel comprises organic material that is important for mechanical performance and influences the initiation and progression of caries; however, the ...