Journal and Conferences of Dentistry

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.  PDF LINK>>>>>>>