"Dentin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The hard portion of the tooth surrounding the pulp, covered by enamel on the crown and cementum on the root, which is harder and denser than bone but softer than enamel, and is thus readily abraded when left unprotected. (From Jablonski, Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992)
| Descriptor ID |
D003804
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A14.549.167.900.280
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| Concept/Terms |
Dentin- Dentin
- Dentins
- Dentine
- Dentines
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Dentin" by people in Profiles.
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Differences between reported and actual restored caries lesion depths: results from The Dental PBRN. Tex Dent J. 2014 Jul; 131(7):520-8.
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Dentist and practice characteristics associated with restorative treatment of enamel caries in permanent teeth: multiple-regression modeling of observational clinical data from the National Dental PBRN. Am J Dent. 2014 Apr; 27(2):91-9.
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Results from the Xylitol for Adult Caries Trial (X-ACT). J Am Dent Assoc. 2013 Jan; 144(1):21-30.
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Caries treatment in a dental practice-based research network: movement toward stated evidence-based treatment. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 2013 Apr; 41(2):143-53.
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Differences between reported and actual restored caries lesion depths: results from The Dental PBRN. J Dent. 2012 Mar; 40(3):248-54.
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Efficacy of chlorhexidine varnish for the prevention of adult caries: a randomized trial. J Dent Res. 2012 Feb; 91(2):150-5.
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Examiner training and reliability in two randomized clinical trials of adult dental caries. J Public Health Dent. 2011; 71(4):335-44.
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Concordance between preoperative and postoperative assessments of primary caries lesion depth: results from the Dental PBRN. Oper Dent. 2010 Jul-Aug; 35(4):389-96.
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Restorative treatment thresholds for occlusal primary caries among dentists in the dental practice-based research network. J Am Dent Assoc. 2010 Feb; 141(2):171-84.
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Restorative treatment thresholds for interproximal primary caries based on radiographic images: findings from the Dental Practice-Based Research Network. Gen Dent. 2009 Nov-Dec; 57(6):654-63; quiz 664-6, 595, 680.