31 Facts About Dental caries

Tooth decay, known as cavities or Dental caries, is the breakdown of teeth due to acids produced by bacteria.

Dental caries are associated with poverty, poor cleaning of the mouth, and receding gums resulting in exposure of the roots of the teeth.

Prevention of dental caries includes regular cleaning of the teeth, a diet low in sugar, and small amounts of fluoride.

Dental caries can occur on any surface of a tooth that is exposed to the oral cavity, but not the structures that are retained within the bone.

Proximal Dental caries take an average of four years to pass through enamel in permanent teeth.

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Also, Dental caries is more likely to develop when food is trapped between teeth.

Susceptibility to Dental caries can be related to altered metabolism in the tooth, in particular to fluid flow in the dentin.

Dental caries have been linked with lower socio-economic status and can be considered a disease of poverty.

Forms are available for risk assessment for caries when treating dental cases; this system using the evidence-based Caries Management by Risk Assessment .

Tooth enamel is a highly mineralized acellular tissue, and Dental caries act upon it through a chemical process brought on by the acidic environment produced by bacteria.

The translucent zone is the first visible sign of Dental caries and coincides with a one to two percent loss of minerals.

In dentin from the deepest layer to the enamel, the distinct areas affected by Dental caries are the advancing front, the zone of bacterial penetration, and the zone of destruction.

The innermost dentin Dental caries has been reversibly attacked because the collagen matrix is not severely damaged, giving it potential for repair.

Lasers for detecting Dental caries allow detection without ionizing radiation and are now used for detection of interproximal decay .

Large areas of dental caries are often apparent to the naked eye, but smaller lesions can be difficult to identify.

Early, uncavitated Dental caries is often diagnosed by blowing air across the suspect surface, which removes moisture and changes the optical properties of the unmineralized enamel.

Differential diagnosis for dental caries includes dental fluorosis and developmental defects of the tooth including hypomineralization of the tooth and hypoplasia of the tooth.

In some instances, Dental caries is described in other ways that might indicate the cause.

The name for this type of Dental caries comes from the fact that the decay usually is a result of allowing children to fall asleep with sweetened liquids in their bottles or feeding children sweetened liquids multiple times during the day.

Temporal descriptions can be applied to Dental caries to indicate the progression rate and previous history.

Dental caries sealants have been shown to be more effective at preventing occlusal decay when compared to fluoride varnish applications.

Techniques such as stepwise caries removal are designed to avoid exposure of the dental pulp and overall reduction of the amount of tooth substance which requires removal before the final filling is placed.

Some dentists remove dental caries using a laser rather than the traditional dental drill.

Bacteria typically associated with dental caries have been isolated from vaginal samples from females who have bacterial vaginosis.

Skulls dating from a million years ago through the Neolithic period show signs of Dental caries, including those from the Paleolithic and Mesolithic ages.

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Rate of Dental caries remained low through the Bronze Age and Iron Age, but sharply increased during the Middle Ages.

Periodic increases in Dental caries prevalence had been small in comparison to the 1000 AD increase, when sugar cane became more accessible to the Western world.

In 1850, another sharp increase in the prevalence of Dental caries occurred and is believed to be a result of widespread diet changes.

Dental caries found that bacteria inhabited the mouth and that they produced acids that dissolved tooth structures when in the presence of fermentable carbohydrates.

Later, in 1954 in the US, Frank Orland working with hamsters showed that caries was transmissible and caused by acid-producing Streptococcus thus ending the debate whether dental caries were resultant from bacteria.

The prevalence of Dental caries increased dramatically in the 19th century, as the Industrial Revolution made certain items, such as refined sugar and flour, readily available.