Clinical study regarding the influence of the sugared and sugar-free chewing gum on the salivary pH and flow rate
Even
in decline, dental decay is still one of the most frequently diseases in
humans, starting soon after the eruption and whose prevalence is increasing
with age.
In the last decades, the biochemical and morphological researches of
the processes that are taking place at the enamel surface and at the enamel-oral
fluids interface, demonstrated that dental decay was not the result of a
continuous demineralization of the enamel by the action of the acids resulting
from the fermentative processes in the bacterial dental plaque, but the result
of an alternation of successive de- and remineralizations. The evolution of the
carious process is the result of loosing the equilibrium between the deand re-mineralization
processes, all of these being dependent by the composition and the chemical
status of the oral fluids - the saliva and plaque fluid.
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