Question 44 (part 2) · LDEK · Caries in children
Choose correct statements regarding primary teeth caries:
1) the caries may develop not long after the eruption of primary teeth (even in the 6th or 8th month of life);
2) its course is always acute;
3) primary teeth caries is characterized with Rapid transition from initial to subsequent stages;
4) predisposed places in the order of their occupancy are: anatomic cavities, such as fissures, pits, palatal surfaces in the neck areas, approximal surfaces;
5) anterior maxillary teeth are usually not involved with caries due to the protective role of tongue and saliva from sublingual and submandibular glands.
Correct answer is:
2) its course is always acute;
3) primary teeth caries is characterized with Rapid transition from initial to subsequent stages;
4) predisposed places in the order of their occupancy are: anatomic cavities, such as fissures, pits, palatal surfaces in the neck areas, approximal surfaces;
5) anterior maxillary teeth are usually not involved with caries due to the protective role of tongue and saliva from sublingual and submandibular glands.
Correct answer is:
- A. 1,2,3,4.
- B. 1,2,4,5.
- C. 3,4,5.
- D. 2,4,5.
- E. 1,3,5.
Hint
Consider whether primary-tooth caries always runs the same course, and recheck the usual sequence in which tooth sites become affected.
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