Dental Caries

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Across
  1. 3. Proposed Proteolytic Theory.
  2. 5. No of zones in dentinal caries.
  3. 7. Acid formed by enzymatic breakdown of sugar and acid.
  4. 10. Consistency of necrotic mass of dentin.
  5. 13. Decrease in plaque formation.
  6. 14. Dentin in arrested caries.
  7. 15. Secondary invaders in carious lesion.
  8. 16. The glycoprotein derived from saliva and adsorbed on the tooth surface.
  9. 18. DEJ facilitates this mode of spread of caries.
  10. 20. Widely accepted theory of dental caries.
  11. 21. Alternative term for primary caries.
  12. 23. Prominent structure in body of lesion.
  13. 24. Sudden rapid and almost uncontrollable destruction of teeth by caries.
Down
  1. 1. Carbohydrate mostly involved in etiology of dental caries.
  2. 2. Most potent chemical anticaries agent
  3. 4. Facilitate attachment of Actinomyces to tooth surface.
  4. 6. Gram-negative Cocci in plaque with proposed anticariogenic property.
  5. 8. Dentin appearing white in transmitted light
  6. 9. Substance lost in earliest stage of carious lesion.
  7. 11. Substance altering the tooth surface and structure
  8. 12. Indicator used in Snyder test
  9. 17. pH at which saliva ceases to be saturated with calcium and phosphate.
  10. 19. Caries occurring in the immediate vicinity of restoration
  11. 22. Organisms involved in smooth surface caries.