Dental caries has been an important public health problem worldwide. In modern caries management has shifted from the concept of “drilling and filling” to caries risk assessment 1. Proper assessment ...

Two new studies dealing with the definitions of dental caries susceptibility to the hypomineralization and hypoplasia have been published by the International and American Associations for Dental ...

Provides a structured update for dentists to help them deliver optimal caries care and outcomes for their patients. Suggests this 4D cycle is a practice-building format which both prevents and ...

A team of Harvard University researchers has developed what they say is an easy-to-use classification system for evaluating individual teeth that could help standardize caries assessment, simplify ...

The figure illustrates the major categories of genes that may influence susceptibility to dental caries, organized by their biological functions and pathways. These groups include: (1) Enamel ...