dental caries, a progressive bacterial damage to teeth, is one of the most common diseases that affects 95% of the population and is still a major cause of tooth loss. unfortunately, there is currently no highly sensitive and specific clinical means for its detection in its early stages. the accurate detection of early caries in enamel would be of significant clinical value. since, it is possib...

AIM AND OBJECTIVE The objective is to assess the prevalence of caries in children with perinatal human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. MATERIALS AND METHODS Oral examination was performed on children aged 2-12 years with perinatal HIV infection who stayed at 'Calvary Chapel home of hope for special children' to assess decayed, missing, or filled primary teeth/decayed, missing, or fill...

After seventy years of controversial discussion, the reports by Dean et al. that purported to demonstrate an inverse relationship between the prevalence of tooth decay in children and the fluoride content of drinking water are still cited as strong evidence for a significant anti-caries effect of fluoride, despite their many shortcomings. In addition, major hypotheses for possible cariostatic m...

Review Article Caries Prevention – Newer Horizons: A Review Katiyar A, Kohli A, Singh G, Gupta K, Gupta S, Srivastava S Abstract: Prevention is a philosophy of practice based on a perspective that focuses on maintaining health rather than on treating a disease. Modern methodology for the prevention of progressive oral diseases includes the identification of patients at high risk of developing d...

After seventy years of controversial discussion, the reports by Dean et al. that purported to demonstrate an inverse relationship between the prevalence of tooth decay in children and the fluoride content of drinking water are still cited as strong evidence for a significant anti-caries effect of fluoride, despite their many shortcomings. In addition, major hypotheses for possible cariostatic m...

The aims of this study were to perform a systematic review of the use of rats as a model for experimental tooth movement, to give a critical evaluation of the use of elastics as a force delivery system, and to describe a newly designed well-defined model for tooth movement in rats. The literature from 1981 to 2002 indicates that in 57 per cent of animal studies on orthodontic tooth movement, ra...

Since the advent of post and core systems, dentists have regularly accepted the traditional cast and post and core as choice of treatment modality to restore a badly broken root canal treated tooth. The important question being, if at all the cast, post is indicated in every case. Other concept being that a cast post compared to a prefabricated post improves the strength of a root canal treated...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE 34 years ago, children living in rural areas had almost 2 more teeth affected by decay than those living in cities. Environmental differences are being reduced along with Poland's civilization development. The aim of the study is to assess the extent to which the differences in the intensity of caries and oral health behaviours between the urban rural environment have...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the changes in the prevalence of dental caries in Lagos State over a 3 years period and the role of age, sex, and playing in the changes observed. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three primary schools in Lagos State, Nigeria were randomly selected for the study. Six hundred and thirty-three children age 2-12 years, were examined for caries in 2000 while 513 children were examined...

UNLABELLED The need for new dental tissue-replacement therapies is evident in recent reports which reveal startling statistics regarding the high incidence of tooth decay and tooth loss. Recent advances in the identification and characterization of dental stem cells, and in dental tissue-engineering strategies, suggest that bioengineering approaches may successfully be used to regenerate dental...