Prevention of Caries by Control of Dental Plaque

Silverstone, Leon M.; Johnson, N. W.; Hardie, J. M.; Williams, Ruth

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-16547-6_11

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“…Thus the fluid phase in the enamel re mains very nearly saturated with respect to the enamel mineral (point II). This is consistent with the histological evidence [Silverstone et al, 1981] and with bench scale studies [Chow and Brown, 1984;Grey, 1966], and implies, as we have ob served in all our experiments, that the IAP of the solutions in the wells should remain approximately constant at each point in the lesion.…”

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“…Thus, the well so lutions located in a lesion may be in equi librium with a low carbonate-containing phase present on the enamel crystal sur faces. Such a phase, which has been pro posed [Silverstone et al, 1981] as being formed by reprecipitation of the enamel during the initial stage of attack, would not greatly change the C 0 2 content of the bulk of the enamel.…”

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Ultramicro Analysis of the Fluid in Human Enamel During in vitro Caries Attack by Hydrochloric Acid

Vogel¹,

Carey²,

Chow³

et al. 1987

Caries Res

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An in vitro experimental caries model is described in which an ultramicro system of analysis was used during simulated decay to study the composition of fluid in micro wells drilled within human enamel. In this experiment, hydrochloric acid was used as the demineralizing agent because the results could be directly compared to recent bench-scale studies using a two-compartment diffusion cell. The two sets of results agree in principle and generally confirm an earlier ‘diffusion-controlled’ caries model. Furthermore, the results are contrary to caries models based on the assumption that the rate-controlling process is release of ions from the enamel crystal surfaces because: (1) The solutions at various points in the lesion remained satured during the attack, although a highly demineralized lesion was used in the experiment, and a high degree of undersaturation was used to drive the demineralization. (2) The Ca/P ratio in the lesion solution increased during the demineralization. (3) The calcium and phosphate concentrations increased during the demineralization above their initial values although there was no concentration gradient for hydrochloric acid in this system. (4) Small membrane potentials developed during the demineralization, indicating that the tooth surface was permselective. (5) The directions of the changes in the concentrations of all the ions in solution could be predicted from the permselectivity using the ‘diffusion-controlled’ model. These results have major implications relative to the design of theoretical physicochemical models employed to elucidate the mechanism of caries.

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Ultramicro Analysis of the Fluid in Human Enamel During in vitro Caries Attack by Hydrochloric Acid

Vogel¹,

Carey²,

Chow³

et al. 1987

Caries Res

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“…Although it has been mentioned in many textbooks that caries progression can be arrested and caries lesions can become rehardened under favourable conditions [15–18], these mainly refer to early caries lesions in enamel and root caries. Arresting coronal dentine caries has seldom been reported and few studies showed such an effect in community‐based programmes [19].…”

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Arresting dentine caries in Chinese preschool children

Schwarz

Wong

1998

Int J Paed Dentistry

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“…The cen tral section, behaving as a barrier to per meating ions, was delimited by two cello phane membranes 4.15 mm apart, and contained a 2% (w/v) mucin solution (pu rified from type II mucin from Sigma Chemical Co.). This protein has been chosen because glycoproteins represent the main protein constituent [Silverstone et al, 1981] of the pellicle; furthermore, at the tested concentration, the viscosity of its gel-like solution is sufficiently high to reduce convection between the two cello phane membranes, and at the same time the solution can be easily injected with a needle in the central compartment. The temperature during experiments was kept at 35 ± 1 °C by means of a thermostatic bath.…”

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