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The Continuum of Dental Caries—Evidence for a Dynamic Disease Process

Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of California at San Francisco, 707 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA; jdbf{at}itsa.ucsf.edu

View larger version (19K): [in a new window]   Figure 1. Schematic diagram of the balance between pathological factors and protective factors in the dental caries process. Reproduced with the permission of the publisher, Munksgaard, from Featherstone (1999).

View larger version (17K): [in a new window]   Figure 2. Plot of volume % mineral vs. depth from the surface for 4 groups in a pH cycling study. Each group was treated between demineralization and remineralization by a dentifrice containing, respectively, (a) no added fluoride, (b) 250 ppm F, (c) 1100 ppm F, and (d) 2800 ppm F each as NaF. Error bars are standard deviations for the data at each depth from the surface. Each group is statistically significantly different from every other group (p < 0.05).