DA08.0
category
Dental caries
Definition
The dental caries process begins with the loss of calcium ions from the surface apatite crystals that form the bulk of the three calcified dental tissues. Under normal circumstances, this loss of calcium (demineralization) is compensated by the uptake of calcium (remineralization) from the tooth’s microenvironment. This dynamic process of demineralization and remineralization takes place more or less continually and equally in a favourable oral environment. In an unfavourable environment, the remineralization rate does not sufficiently neutralize the rate of demineralization and caries occurs.
Inclusions
- Dental decay
Also indexed as
Acute dentine dental cariesAcute enamel dental cariesArrested dental cariesBaby bottle tooth decayCaries limited to enamelCaries of cementumCaries of dentineCaries of infancy associated with bottle feedingCaries of infancy associated with breast feedingCaries with pulp exposureChronic dentine dental cariesDental cariesDental decayECC - [early childhood caries]Early childhood cariesInfantile melanodontiaLinear enamel cariesMelanodontoclasiaNursing carieOdontoclasiaPrimary dental cariesPulpal decaySecondary dental cariesacute dentin cariesacute enamel cariesarrested cementum cariescaries NOScarious teethcemental cariescementum carieschronic dentin cariesdental caries confined to enameldental caries extending into dentinedental caries limited to enameldental caries of root surfacedental cavitydentin cariesdentine cariesenamel cariesinitial cariesnight bottle mouthroot cariesroot surface cariessaprodontiasimple dental cariessimple dental cavityteeth decayedtooth cariestooth decaywhite spot lesions of teeth