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Root caries.
Root caries is not exclusive to older individuals. Any caries-prone patient having gum recession can develop root caries. However, the elderly are usually more vulnerable to root caries because of several conditions. First, older patients are more likely to experience gum recession. Gum recession exposes the root of the tooth, which is softer than the enamel-covered crown of the tooth. Conseque...
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Methods: Twenty–one residential homes were surveyed. Three hundred and six healthy elders having at least 5 teeth with exposed sound root surfaces were randomly allocated into 1 of 4 groups: individualized oral hygiene instruction (OHI), OHI and applications of 1% chlorhexidine varnish every 3 months, OHI and applications of 5% sodium fluoride varnish every 3 months and OHI and annual applicati...
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PURPOSE Root caries is a problem of importance among dentate elderly. Greater life expectancies at both birth and age 65, combined with improvements in tooth retention across all age groups, have resulted in an increasing number of Americans who have retained their teeth into old age. This increase in numbers of teeth combined with the increase in the percent of teeth with recession has in turn...
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Root caries is a lesion located on the root surface of a tooth, usually close to or below the gingival margin. Root caries has become an important dental problem because people are living longer and keeping their teeth longer. As patients grow older, their gums recede and root surfaces are exposed, making them more susceptible to root caries. Any caries-prone patient having gingival recession c...
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The most commonly used clinical signs of root caries are visual (color, contour, surface cavitation) and tactile (surface texture) descriptions of a lesion. The traditional methods of visual-tactile diagnosis for root caries can produce a correct diagnosis but usually not until the lesion is at an advanced stage. Despite the subjectivity inherent in interpreting the clinical signs of root carie...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Dental Journal
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0007-0610', '1476-5373']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41415-021-3234-2