Open AccessDental caries - A complete changeover (Part I)
Author(s) -
Carounanidy Usha,
R Sathyanarayanan
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of conservative dentistry/journal of conservative dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 0974-5203
pISSN - 0972-0707
DOI - 10.4103/0972-0707.55617
Subject(s) - changeover , dentistry , orthodontics , medicine , computer science , telecommunications , transmission (telecommunications)
In spite of a knowledge explosion in cariology science, dental caries still remains a misunderstood phenomenon by the clinicians. In order to effectively use the wide range of preventive and management strategies, it is imperative to look beyond those black and white spots that manifest on the tooth surfaces. This paper focuses on the revised versions of the etiopathogenesis and definition of dental caries disease in the present century.