Re: another is it a cavity post...

Hi Stovepipe,

> JME is right, if perhaps loose with his terminology. Since the use of
> fuoride to combat carious attack, the bacteria have taken to attacking
> deep inside the fissures and grooves that naturally criscross the
> occlusal surface of teeth. This causes deep and latreally spreading
> caries that are not necessarily visible on the surface of the tooth. The
> DiagnoDent was developed chiefly to sniff out this type of caries, I
> think.

I still doubt that fluoride has much to do with that. Couldn´t it be
that a cavity starts in (and spreads into the tooth from) a small area
at a distal or mesial surface where it can´t be seen easily because
maybe two molars are too close to another and hide the initial lesion?
No matter what the fluoride status of such a tooth is.

What facts would favor a fluoride involvement?

Cheers,
Peter
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