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