Root Caries and Management

ISBN-13: 9786206160762 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str.

Gone Vidyasagar; Hariprasad Gone; Potpally Sowmya

Opis

Dental caries is an ancient disease that has been found in skulls from all over the world where the primitive man lived in isolated areas and the diet lacked refined and carbohydrate-rich food. Root caries is a lesion located on the root surface of a tooth, usually close to or below the gingival margin, and is the major cause of tooth loss in older adults, and tooth loss is the most significant oral health-related negative variable of quality of life for the elderly population who get their teeth extracted and replaced with removable prostheses. At present, root caries is becoming a new area of focused research in dentistry, as more people are living to an advanced age and retaining their natural teeth. With advanced age, there is more gingival recession, which leaves the root surface exposed to the oral environment and leads to an increase in the root caries rate. It is a preventable disease. This book deals with how to manage, prevent or mitigate this disease.

O autorze

I am Dr. Vidyasagar Goje currently working as Asst.professor at Sri Sai College of Dental Surgery,Vikarabad. I got my graduation from the same college. With a keen interest in the field of dentistry, I started gathering information about unknown facts regarding tooth loss, especially in elderly individuals and compiled it in one place in this book.