title: Defining dental caries for 2010 and beyond.
abstract: This introductory article provides an overview of the caries disease process that will help guide readers into the world of evidence-based caries management in the beginning of the twenty-first century and help them understand the ongoing need to update in this field. This issue of Dental Clinics of North America provides clinically relevant reviews, full of chair-side recommendations based on best available evidence, on epidemiology, nomenclature, disease process, and management. A glossary of common terms in cariology is included.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cariology, Restorative Sciences and Endodontics, University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. mfontan@umich.edu
authors.forename: Margherita
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fontana
authors.forename: Douglas A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: Mark S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Wolff
authors.forename: Nigel B
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Pitts
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Longbottom
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003729:Dental Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy; D003732:Dental Caries Activity Tests / Q000379:methods*; D003733:Dental Caries Susceptibility; D003813:Dentistry / Q000639:trends*; D055094:Evidence-Based Dentistry; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D019239:Practice Patterns, Dentists'; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult