Tooth decay, also known as cavities or caries, is the breakdown of teeth due to acids produced by bacteria. The cavities may be a number of different colors...

A caries vaccine is a vaccine to prevent and protect against tooth decay. Streptococcus mutans (S. mutans) has been identified as the major etiological...

Early childhood caries (ECC), formerly known as nursing bottle caries, baby bottle tooth decay, night bottle mouth and night bottle caries, is a disease...

chemical misnomer) is a topical medication used to treat and prevent dental caries (tooth decay) and relieve dentinal hypersensitivity. It is a colorless (most...

Tilletia caries (synonymous with Tilletia tritici) is a basidiomycete that causes common bunt of wheat. The common names of this disease are stinking bunt...

removed (usually as a result of dental caries or dental injuries) can still eat and chew to a certain extent. Dental caries, also known as tooth decay and cavities...

interactions between caries, or tooth cavity, related factors. It demonstrates the caries risk graphically and shows the risk for developing new caries in the future...

hypotheses are theories to explain the role of plaque bacteria in dental caries and in periodontitis. They rely heavily on the postulates of Koch (formulated...

prevention of dental caries. Fluoride toothpaste, with concentrations of 1000 ppm and above, reduces the risk of dental caries in school-aged children...

The largest increases in the prevalence of caries have been associated with diet changes. Today, caries remains one of the most common diseases throughout...

Dental caries, also known as tooth decay, is uncommon among companion animals. The bacteria Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sanguis cause dental...

community started to focus on this area of dentistry, due to the high dental caries (decay) prevalence observed in young children. The first[citation needed]...

added to his classification system. Black's Classification of Caries Lesions: Class I Caries affecting pits and fissures on occlusal third of molars and...

growth of pathogenic Streptococcus in the mouth, thereby reducing dental caries and gingivitis, although there is concern that swallowed xylitol may cause...

lesion, cervical line erosion, feline subgingival resorptive lesion, feline caries, or feline cavity. It is one of the most common diseases of domestic cats...

South Africa and the Scandinavian countries since the 1980s as a dental caries prevention therapy. They are recognised by the Food and Drug Administration...

and therefore its caries promoting potential. This offers the potential for an anti-fungal to be used in the prevention of dental caries. Early colonizers...

ingredients (most commonly fluoride) to help prevent tooth decay (dental caries) and gum disease (gingivitis). Owing to differences in composition and fluoride...

become acidic causing demineralization of the teeth (also known as dental caries) or harden into dental calculus (also known as tartar). Calculus cannot...

greatly impacts the pH of plaque surrounding the enamel, thereby inhibiting caries progression. Plaque thickness and the number of bacteria present determine...

for pulpal necrosis. Pulpal response to caries can be divided into two stages – pre- and post-infection. In caries-affected human teeth, odontoblast-like...

In psychology, confabulation is a memory error consisting of the production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world...

CAMBRA is an acronym for Caries Management by Risk Assessment. It describes a preventative form of dentistry in which patients are categorized by their...

of interproximal cleaning is to prevent the development of interproximal caries and periodontal disease. The combined use of tooth brushing, and mechanical...

Fluoride or fluorine deficiency is a disorder which may cause increased dental caries and possibly osteoporosis, due to a lack of fluoride in diet. Common dietary...

including "extra sticky toffee"[clarification needed] to provoke dental caries. The experiments were sponsored both by the sugar industry and the dentist...

are usually placed as soon as the adult molar teeth come through. Dental caries is an upset of the balance between loss and gain of minerals from a tooth...

because topical fluorides (such as in toothpaste) are widely used, and caries rates have become low. Although fluoridation can cause dental fluorosis...

affected dental tissue, providing evidence of caries-induced change. Optically based methods detect caries on changes in the specific optical properties...

other calcium compounds in chewing-gum. Other studies indicated that the caries preventive effect of chewing sugar-free gum is related to the chewing process...