3. 1. Dental Plaque and Caries.
2. The Essential Role of Bacteria
in Caries.
3. Diet and Dental Caries
4. Diet and Dental Caries.
1. Epidemiological Evidence
Dentists Children.
2. Hereditary Fructose
intolerance.
3. Evidence from the regulation
of diets in humans.
THE VIPEHOLM STUDY 1939.
4. The relative cariogenicity of
carbohydrates.
5. Protective Factors In
Food.
1. Anti bacterial factors in
unrefined cereals.
2. Protective factor in crude
sugars.
3. Phosphates.
4. Trace elements.
5. Vitamin B6
6. Fats and caries in coca and
6. Dental Plaque and
Caries.
1. Formation Of Dental Plaque.
2. Plaque Matrix.
3. Metabolism within Plaque.
4. Polysaccharide Synthesis.
a. Intracellular.
b. Extracellular.
7. Non-Self Cleansing
Areas
• Pits and Fissures
• Contact Areas
• Area of near Approach
• Gingival Embrasures
• Facial or Lingual Surfaces
Apical to Cervical Ridge
8. Self Cleansing Areas
• Tips of Cusps
• Crests of marginal and crosing ridges
• All inclined planes of cusps and ridges
• Occlusal, incisal, facial and lingual
embrasures
• Facial or lingual surfaces incisal or
occlusal to the height of contour with the
exception of pits, if present
• Axial angles of teeth
9. Role Of Saliva
• Composition
• pH
• Viscosity
• Flow
• Antimicrobial elements
• Antibody elemets