Sentence examples for enamel breakdown from inspiring English sources

Code 3: posteruptive enamel breakdown, large scale.

Severe lesions were those with post eruptive enamel breakdown [ 5].

The localized enamel breakdown (code 3) and underlying dark shadow from dentin (code 4) were considered 'established decay'.

The ICDAS codes consist of: 0 = sound, 1 = first visual change in enamel, 2 = distinct visual change in enamel, 3 = localized enamel breakdown, 4 = underlying dentin shadow, 5 = distinct cavity with visible dentin, and 6 = extensive cavity within visible dentin.

Moderate lesions were those with presence of any atypical restoration, demarcated opacities present on the occlusal/incisal third of the teeth with no post eruptive enamel break down or with post-eruptive enamel breakdown limited to one or two surfaces without cuspal involvement [ 5].

Caries was visually scored on surface level as "sound" (no evidence of caries), "initial" (first visual change in enamel), "cavitated" (breakdown of enamel, with or without visible dentine) or "arrested" (hard and smooth surface but whitish, brownish or black) after drying and cleaning and expressed as decayed surfaces (ds).

The retained amorphous organic material seen in the affected teeth may be a result of increased protein binding to the altered crystal surfaces and subsequent hindrance of the normal proteolytic breakdown of the enamel matrix.

Post-eruptive breakdown of the soft enamel readily occurs.

This method involves the binary scoring of three defect categories (present or absent) and include enamel hypoplasia, opacity and post-eruptive breakdown having eight possible scores (000 to 111) per tooth surface.

Post-eruptive breakdown : Includes the loss of enamel surface after eruption and is characterised by sharp and irregular borders.

Affected teeth occasionally undergo post-eruptive breakdown due to soft and porous enamel, resulting in atypical cavities or even to complete coronal distortion [ 3].