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Dental caries

Nature Reviews Disease Primers · 25 May 2017

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A comprehensive primer on dental caries covering epidemiology, the biofilm- and sugar-driven disease process, diagnosis, prevention and management. It presents caries as a dynamic, preventable disease and summarises approaches to controlling it across the life course.

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Pitts NB, Zero DT, Marsh PD, Ekstrand K, Weintraub JA, Ramos-Gomez F, et al. Dental caries. Nature Reviews Disease Primers. 2017;3(1):17030. doi:10.1038/nrdp.2017.30

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