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