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Genetic susceptibility to dental caries on pit and fissure and smooth surfaces.
Caries research - 1 Jan 2012
Shaffer J R, Wang X, Desensi R S, Wendell S, Weyant R J, Cuenco K T, Crout R, McNeil D W, Marazita M L
Abstract excerpt
Carious lesions are distributed nonuniformly across tooth surfaces of the complete dentition, suggesting that the effects of risk factors may be surface-specific. Whether genes differentially affect caries risk across tooth surfaces is unknown. We investigated the role of genetics on two classes of tooth surfaces, pit and fissure surfaces (PFS) and smooth surfaces (SMS), in more than 2,600 subjects from 740...
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