Question 27 · LDEK · Cariology
What kind of caries does the following description concern: “Sometimes, for unknown reasons, chronic caries stops for many years. Very often it is observed on the proximal surface, after an extraction of the neighboring tooth, which makes the affected surface easier to clean and more accessible to saliva”?
- A. secondary caries.
- B. arrested caries.
- C. rampant caries.
- D. circular caries.
- E. deep caries.
Hint
The description stresses a lesion that stops progressing once the surface becomes easy to clean.
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