BACKGROUND Maternal nutrition status during pregnancy may affect fetal tooth development, formation, and mineralization, and may affect dental caries susceptibility in children. We investigated the association between maternal intake of dairy products and calcium during pregnancy and the risk of childhood dental caries. METHODS Subjects were 315 Japanese mother-child pairs. Data on maternal i...

Dental caries is a multifactorial disease. The interactions of various factors like microorganisms, carbohydrate diet, hygiene habits and socioeconomic status are involved in causation of dental caries. For assessment of dental caries few tests demonstrating oral bacteria and their products have been accepted as these oral microflora and their products play an important role in causation and pr...

Dental caries is the most common chronic disease of childhood. Cariogram is a well-recognized algorithm-based software program based on different caries-related risk factors and intended to aid clinicians in performing more objective and consistent dental caries risk assessments. This type of approach precedes the diagnosis of caries and allows the dentist to identify at-risk patients and then ...

This work correlated the presence of oral streptococci in dental biofilm with clinical indexes of caries and oral hygiene in caries-active and caries-free children. S. mutans and/or S. sobrinus in the dental biofilm does not indicate a direct risk for developing dental caries.

OBJECTIVE There are various risk factors which play an essential role in the multifactorial disease "dental caries." Although absence of interdental spaces in the primary dentition may increase the risk of dental caries, not many studies have been carried out to assess this correlation. This study was performed to assess the relationship between interdental spacing and dental caries in primary ...

The science behind caries prevention and reversal is well understood. A recent clinical trial has confirmed that reducing caries risk results in a reduction in dental decay. Dental caries progression or reversal depends upon the balance between demineralization and remineralization and can be visualized for clinical purposes as the "caries balance." This balance is determined by the relative we...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of dental caries, and associated social risk factors among preschool children in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. METHODS The study consisted of a random sample of 3 to 5 years- old preschool children who were examined in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 388 children (184 boys and 204 girls) were examined from 10 different preschools. Each surface of their teeth was examined ...

Research has demonstrated the validation of specific caries risk assessment (CRA) systems, but little is known about how dental practitioners assign a caries risk level to their patients. The aim of this study was to explore dental students' decision making in caries risk assignment when using the Caries Management By Risk Assessment (CAMBRA) system. Multiple correspondence analysis and chi-squ...

Background Over the past 15 years, strategies for managing dental caries increasingly have emphasized the concept of risk assessment. However, a practical tool for assessing caries risk in infants, children, and adolescents has been lacking. While assessment of caries risk undoubtedly will benefit from emerging science and technologies, the AAPD believes that sufficient evidence exists to suppo...