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Mimicking and Measuring Occlusal Erosive Tooth Wear with the "Rub&Roll" and Non-contact Profilometry
Published on: February 2, 2018
Clinical research of dental erosion
1Department of Dental Pathology, Faculty of Stomatology, Sarajevo.
Abstract:
On the base of performed clinical studies of a possible appearance of dental erosion in patients, it can be concluded as follows: 1) Out of 710 treated patients, in 62 is found the appearance of erosive changes of dental tissues. 2) Erosive changes were more prevalent in patients in the third age group, more often in male than in female. 3) Patients with erosive changes are with distinctive gastrointestinal disorders, they used the hard toothbrush, soft food, and in most of them is noticed the appearance of psychic disorders with the aggressive behaving. 4) Studies have shown the justification and the need to continue them by multidisciplined approach in a higher number of patients, a longer period, in order for better discovering the aetiology of erosive changes of dental hard tissues.

