Lecture 5 Flashcards
Translucent Zone
Zone 1
innermoststrongest churva
Zone 1
Dark Zone
Zone 2
positive zone formed by demineralization
Zone 2
Body of the Lesion
Zone 3
area of greatest demineralization
Zone 3
Surface Zone
Zone 4
outermost
Zone 4
appears relatively unaffected
Zone 4
the greater resistance of the surface layer may be due to a greater degree of mineralization or greater concentration of fluoride in the ____.
Surface Enamel (Zone 4)
means reversible
Incipient
your carious lesions will start as a white spot, but it has no break/cavity yet. So your intact surface zone, this is ____ early enamel caries
incipient
Then you have body of the lesion, there is a little demineralization going on even though your surface is still intact that is why what you see clinically is a ____.
white spot
you have your dark zone and after the dark zone is your ____.
translucent zone (innermost zone)
is the inner recrystallization zone
Zone 1