Dental Decay and Its Control

Autor: Paul K. Losch
Rok vydání: 1951
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Zdroj: New England Journal of Medicine. 245:690-693
ISSN: 1533-4406
0028-4793
DOI: 10.1056/nejm195111012451805
Popis: AN INDEX of the enormous public interest in. control of dental caries is the amount of advertising carried by most American magazines on substances set forth as preventing or controlling tooth decay. Physicians as well as dentists are plagued with requests concerning such products; hence it is occasionally timely to review those phases of present-day knowledge pertinent to the instruction of patients. Historically dental disease is as old as the record of mankind. There is some evidence that its prevalence is greater in modern than in ancient times. Conjecture is great but facts are meager about the effects on teeth . . .
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