STUDIES ON THE INCIDENCE AND CAUSE OF DENTAL DEFECTS IN CHILDREN
VII. FISSURES AND CARIES
MARCU BRUCKER D.D.S.1
1 Dental Division, Bureau of Health Education and Service, Board of Education, Newark, N. J.
The data here presented indicate that caries of the first permanent molars cannot be directly related to the presence of defective fissures. The disproportion between the incidence of caries and that of faulty coalescence of the enamel lobes is so tremendous that a relationship between the two is out of the question.
Submitted on March 17, 1943
Revised on June 10, 1943
