ARTICLE 1 COVER STORY The American Dental Association Caries Classification System for Clinical Practice A report of the American Dental Association Council on Scientific Affairs Douglas A. Young, DDS, EdD, MBA, MS; Brian B. Nový, DDS; Gregory G. Zeller, DDS,...
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ARTICLE 1 COVER STORY The American Dental Association Caries Classification System for Clinical Practice A report of the American Dental Association Council on Scientific Affairs Douglas A. Young, DDS, EdD, MBA, MS; Brian B. Nový, DDS; Gregory G. Zeller, DDS, MS; Robert Hale, DDS; Thomas C. Hart, DDS, PhD; Edmond L. Truelove, DDS, MSD; American Dental Association Council on Scientific Affairs D ental caries remains a common chronic dis- ease and, in the absence of treatment, it may progress until the tooth is destroyed. Despite advances in restorative materials and the implementation of various preventive approaches, more than 90% of adults in the United States have experienced dental caries before 30 years of age.1,2 Dental caries is a multifactorial disease involving many complex risk and protective factors.3 The clinical presentation of caries disease is a caries lesion; the severity of the disease and of individual caries lesions is the result of complex personal, biological, behavior
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