The prevalence and severity of root surface caries across Australian generations

• Main Authors: Ninuk Hariyani, -, A. John Spencer, -, Liana Luzzi, -, Jane Harford, -, Haiping Tan, -, Gloria Mejia, -, Kaye Roberts‐Thomson, -, Loc G. Do, -
• Format: Article PeerReviewed
• Language: English; English; English; English
• Published: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 2019
• Subjects: RK Dentistry
• Online Access: https://repository.unair.ac.id/123139/1/10.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/123139/2/10.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/123139/3/10.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/123139/4/10.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/123139/
• Institution: Universitas Airlangga

Background: The “failure of success” theory predicts that as subsequent generations of older adults retain more teeth, those additional teeth will experience more oral disease like root surface caries. The theory in relation to root surface caries has never been tested in a cross‐generational stu...