(n.) Ulceration of bone; a process in which bone disintegrates and is carried away piecemeal, as distinguished from necrosis, in which it dies in masses.
Example Sentences:
(1) A total of 555 caries lesions were registered on proximal surfaces, 49.1% being primary lesions in the enamel, 21.4% primary lesions into the dentin and 29.5% secondary lesions.
(2) Caries-related bacteriological and biochemical factors were studied in 12 persons with low and 11 persons with normal salivary-secretion rates before and after a four-week period of frequent mouthrinses with 10% sorbitol solution (adaptation period).
(3) This paper reports, principally, the caries results of the first three surveys of 5, 12 and 5-year-olds undertaken at the end of 1987, 1988 and 1989, respectively.
(4) The most striking feature of some industrialized countries is a dramatic reduction of the prevalence of dental caries among school-aged children.
(5) Furthermore, the effect of immunization was examined in monkeys previously given fluoride in their diet and which had developed a low incidence of dental caries when offered a human type of diet containing about 15 per cent sucrose.
(6) If salt fluoridation could also be generalized, caries levels could be reduced to a fraction of their initial values.
(7) of age and based upon information about the dietary habits of the child could thus be of value to prevent caries in the preschool child.
(8) No significant differences were found in caries or gingival indices, in oral habits or prophylactic measures between the two groups.
(9) The combined prevention of caries was conductive to improved treatment quality which was accounted for by a 1.5 to 2-fold reduction in the rate of disorders in marginal contact with filling material and secondary caries.
(10) Caries also developed in rats inoculated with reference S. mutans strains BHTR and FAIR (type b) that had been maintained in the laboratories for many years.
(11) In spite of low fluoride content in their water supply, the findings revealed a generally low prevalence of caries experience (DMFT 1.26).
(12) Immunologic deficiency of congenitally athymic rats can lead to a greater infection level with mutans streptococci and increased dental caries.
(13) It was shown that: although the oral hygiene level was very low and no dental treatments were performed, caries level was very low--although gingivitis rate was high, advanced periodontitis rate was low--the frequency of interincisive diastema (one subject out of 4 in the 15-19 age group), the progressive decline of tooth cutting, a traditional practice, in town people but the large extent of cola use (one adult out of two).
(14) No clear population trends were seen in dental disease incidence except for cemental caries which were found among Copper and Bronze Age remains.
(15) By scoring every section of a tooth in this way, an overview was obtained of the location of all caries lesions in the occlusal surface.
(16) The aim of this program is to prevent dental caries by a weekly mouthrinsing by elementary school students.
(17) Root surface caries was expressed as total areas affected and as a percentage of the exposed root surface.
(18) Shaping and fine working of restorations necessitated by cervical lesions, abrasions at the necks of teeth, or root surface caries can often be arduous to complete.
(19) Oral complications consist of mucositis, salivary gland dysfunction, loss of resiliency of perioral tissues, periodontal disease, and caries.
(20) Significantly more remineralization was observed in enamel samples treated with the toothpaste containing 2,500 ppm F compared to that containing 1500 ppm F. This result is consistent with the outcome of a recent caries clinical trial testing the same toothpastes and finding enhanced anticaries efficacy from the higher fluoride level.
Carious
Definition:
(a.) Affected with caries; decaying; as, a carious tooth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sound (n = 28) and carious (n = 123) approximal surfaces of extracted premolars and molars were radiographed.
(2) When the practitioner has developed proficiency in restoring class II carious lesions with tunnel restorations, less treatment time is required than with traditional class II preparations.
(3) Ten freshly extracted teeth which had carious pulpal exposures and periapical lesions contiguous with the root apex were placed inside an anaerobic chamber and the apical 5 mm of the root canals cultured.
(4) Due to the influence of this diet deep carious lesions develop more slowly.
(5) A week of kanamycin gel treatment before and after the placement of dental restorations, compared to a placebo gel treatment, significantly reduced the levels of cultivable bacteria, S mutans and S sanguis, in the plaque samples collected immediately after the completion of the gel treatments, and was associated with a 46% reduction in new carious surfaces in the 14- to 37-month period following the gel treatment.
(6) They help the practitioner to make an early diagnosis of carious lesions and development of eruption problems, and they enable him or her to confirm and evaluate a pathology diagnosed clinically.
(7) This clinical study compares the diagnostic yield of Kodak Ektaspeed with the diagnostic yield of Kodak Ultraspeed using a split-mouth experimental design and proximal surface carious lesions as the test objects.
(8) In all conditions, the females had more carious lesions than the males.
(9) We propose the use of a methacrylate replication technique as the method of choice for studying pore distribution in carious enamel and present preliminary results using this technique.
(10) The initiation of carious lesions could be found in a few cases even when S. mutans comprised about 1% or less of the total streptococcal count of the specimen from the tooth surfaces.
(11) The relationship between this type of Retzius lines and the carious process is discussed, and it is suggested that the discontinuity defect may retard the carious lesion due to a protective effect of its supposed organic content.
(12) Exposure of carious lesions to 3 days in an oral environment without fluoride supplement reduced the size of the body of the lesions by an average of 5% (p less than 0.05).
(13) The indirect technique may be feasible for the restoration of carious teeth as well as the presented case.
(14) It was shown that the result of oral rehabilitation is substantially influenced by the increase in the number of subjects with primarily healthy dentitions and by the reduction in the number of carious teeth.
(15) The major interpretational advances were made rapidly using secondary electron imaging of anorganic normal, exposed, carious and instrumented root surfaces.
(16) The patient's age at initial restorative intervention did not appear to influence the need for subsequent endodontic treatment in restored teeth, indicating that early diagnosis and treatment of the carious lesion was critical for long-term pulpal health.
(17) Subjects with a single RPD did not have a statistically significantly increased probability of having carious teeth.
(18) The aim of the study was to compare the radiographic diagnosis of approximal carious lesions with visual observations of the approximal surfaces and within drilled Class II cavities (made into the pulp).
(19) The Chileans had an average of 10.0 carious surfaces, D(s), and the Poles 11.3.
(20) Relative glycogen synthetic abilities of resting cells of fresh clinical isolates of Actinomyces viscosus and Actinomyces naeslundii originating from dental plaque samples over root surface caries lesions and non-carious sites were studied under anaerobic conditions at a constant pH of 7.0, with U-(14C)-glucose used as the carbon source.