Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Journal of Dental Research
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Mellberg, J.R.
Right arrow Articles by Grote, N.E.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Mellberg, J.R.
Right arrow Articles by Grote, N.E.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

The Effect of Plaque Thickness on Progression of Artificial Caries Lesion Formation in situ

J.R. Mellberg

Colgate-Palmolive Company, Technology Center, 909 River Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854

I.D. Petrou

Colgate-Palmolive Company, Technology Center, 909 River Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854

N.E. Grote

Colgate-Palmolive Company, Technology Center, 909 River Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854

Eighty thin enamel sections with artificially-fonned caries lesions were implanted in the buccal surfaces of molars (in the removable partial dentures of ten subjects) and covered with a steel mesh for plaque accumulation to occur. The mesh was placed in contact with the enamel surface in half the lesions and 0.5 mm above the lesions in the other half, thus facilitating formation of thin and thick plaque samples. Following two-week use of a non-fluoride dentifrice, the lesions were analyzed for mineral change by quantitative microradiography. Significant mineral was lost from lesions in both groups, but the loss was twice as large in the thick-plaque group. These findings are important to in vivo remineralization models, since they show that plaque thickness should be controlled for minimization of variation.

Journal of Dental Research, Vol. 69, No. 3, 865-867 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/00220345900690030701
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 J Dent EducHome page
M. Ashkenazi, R. Cohen, and L. Levin
Self-Reported Compliance with Preventive Measures Among Regularly Attending Pediatric Patients
J Dent Educ., February 1, 2007; 71(2): 287 - 295.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 ADRHome page
O. Fejerskov, B. Nyvad, and M. J. Larsen
Human Experimental Caries Models: Intra-Oral Environmental Variability
Advances in Dental Research, July 1, 1994; 8(2): 134 - 143.
[Abstract] [PDF]