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Dental caries - A complete changeover (Part I)
Carounanidy Usha1, R Sathyanarayanan2
1 Department of Dentistry, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Pondicherry, India
2 Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Bapuji Dental College and Hospital, Davangere, Karnataka, India
Correspondence Address:
Carounanidy Usha
Department of Dentistry, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Ganapathichettikulam, Kalapet, Pondicherry - 605 014
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0972-0707.55617
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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. |
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