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 Oral Health Initiative: A Program of the American Academy of Pediatrics
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Course Outline > Pathophysiology of Caries Process

Factors Necessary for Caries
Venn diagram of caries development

 
Substrate availability is a function of frequency of food ingestion, type, retention, concentration of carbohydrate, and presence of flow
  * Diagram courtesy of Dental ResourceNet (http://www.dentalcare.com/soap/olcourse/ sft/course.htm), which was developed through the cooperative efforts of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry and Procter & Gamble.

 
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