Traditional and Novel Caries Detection Methods

Dental caries is a bacteria-associated progressive process of the hard tissues of the coronal and root surfaces of teeth. The net demineralization may begin soon after tooth eruption in caries susceptible children without being recognized by dental professionals. This process may progress further resulting in a caries lesion that is the sign and/or the symptom of the carious process. Caries is in other words a continuum which may by assessed falsely when only a certain time point is considered. Figure 1 shows different stages of the carious process.

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