An Evaluation of the Role of Vitamins and Minerals in the Control of Caries
| Autor: | W.D. Armstrong |
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| Rok vydání: | 1948 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Minerals business.industry Dentistry Vitamin b complex Vitamins 030206 dentistry Dental Caries medicine.disease Ascorbic acid stomatognathic diseases 03 medical and health sciences Malnutrition 030104 developmental biology 0302 clinical medicine stomatognathic system Vitamin deficiency Humans Medicine Vitamin A business Control (linguistics) General Dentistry Developing Teeth |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Dental Research. 27:376-396 |
| ISSN: | 1544-0591 0022-0345 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/00220345480270031401 |
| Popis: | It has been possible to produce clear evidence that certain -vitamins and minerals are required for the formation of teeth of normal structure. It has been very difficult, however, to demonstrate that mature teeth require these nutrients in amounts greater than are needed to prevent gross and obvious signs of deficiency in other tissues. My first task will be to review the evidence in support of these statements. I shall, thereby, indicate why it appears that a mineral or vitamin deficiency must be present during the period of tooth formation if the tooth is to be affected in a manner which could lower its susceptibility to decay. As a sort of after-piece to the first topic, I shall attempt to present a summary of the somewhat controversial evidence which has been produced to show that single mineral or vitamin deficiencies are important causal factors in dental caries. The effects of inadequate diets on developing teeth cannot always be stated in quantitative terms. Our best device, at present, for indicating the importance of the effects produced by nutritional deficiencies on teeth is to compare these effects with those produced on another tissue, such as bone. When such comparisons are made, we shall see that in many circumstances, developing teeth appear to be less liable to alteration by metabolic abnormalities than is forming bone. We shall also see that mature teeth, in so far as any objective criteria are concerned, appear to be almost, if not entirely, removed from the direct influence of nutrition. |
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