Question

What is meant by dental carries? How they are caused?

Answer 1

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Dental caries is known as tooth decay or simply, cavity. in this, bacteria change carbohydrate left in teeth to acids. it causes demineralisation of hard tooth structure. if it exceeds, saliva and protein causes tooth deacy or cavity. bacterias responsible for this are :- streptococcus mutans and lactobacillus.

Causes - They cause when bacteria acting on Sugar produce acids that softens the enamel. Masses of bacterial cell together with food particles stick to the teeth form dental plague.

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