Dental Aspects

Health Factors. Dextrose products are substances that are presumed to be GRAS by the FDA (21). A study of the health aspects of dextrose, fmctose, and com symps has indicated that these sweeteners are not hazardous at levels of normal human consumption with the exception of a small contribution to the formation of dental caries (22). 

M. Biaden, ia Scientific Aspects of Dental Materials, Butteiwoiths, London, 1975, pp. 448—458. 

Wilson, A. D. (1975a). Dental cements - general. In von Fraunhofer, J. A. (ed.) Scientific Aspects of Dental Materials, Chapter 4. London and Boston Butterworths. 

Darvell, B. W. (1984). Aspects of the chemistry of zinc phosphate cements. Australian Dental Journal, 29, 242-4. 

Kent, B. E. Wilson, A. D. (1969). Dental silicate cements VIII. Acid-base aspect. Journal of Dental Research, 48, 412-18. 

Phosphate-polymer control, in industrial water treatment, 26 132-133 Phosphate recognition, 16 794 Phosphate refractory dental dies, compressive strength, 8 289t Phosphate rock, 11 119, 120 minerals in, 19 5, 14 recovery of fluoride from, 14 12-13 U.S. imports for consumption of, 19 15t U.S. production of, 19 17 Phosphates, 18 814-863 19 19. See also Phosphate Polyphosphates aluminum acid, 18 839 ammonium, 11 487 18 835-836 analysis of, 18 851-852 calcium, 18 836-839 condensed, 18 841-852 crystalline, 18 839 dispersants, 8 710t economic aspects of, 18 859-860... 

Current ways in which many scientists are addressing problems related to the above applications can be judged by reference to abstracts of the International Association of Dental Research (32). For the remainder of this article, a few lines of investigation in just one laboratory will be outlined in the belief that they include points of general interest to workers on other aspects of hi ly crosslinked polymers. 

E.C. Moreno, M. Kresak, R.T. Zahradnik, Physicochemical aspects of fluoride-apatite systems relevant to the study of dental caries. Caries Res. 11(suppl. 1)(1977) 142-171. 

J.M. Ten Cate, J.D. Featherstone, Mechanistic aspects of the interactions betw/een fluoride and dental enamel, Crit. Rev. Oral Biol. Med. 2 (1991) 283-296. 

The use of fluoridated products, as well as fluoridation of domestic water supplies, has been one of the most successful approaches ever adopted to improve any aspect of public health. Continued use of such products, albeit under careful control and supervision by the dental profession, will remain important if the advances in oral health of the past 50 years are to be maintained in the future. 

G. Nikiforuk, Understanding Dental Caries, Etiology and Mechanisms. Basic and Clinical Aspects, Karger, Bale, Switzerland, 1985. 

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