Abstract
Dental caries is a multifactorial disease that happens by the combination of dietary sugars, dental biofilm, and the dental tissue of the human. It happens from the periodic changes of demineralization and remineralization at the junction of tooth surface and biofilm.
There are two types of carious dentin-infected dentin and inner caries-affected dentin. The dentin-impacted by caries has a varied mineral distribution and the depth of the caries can extend a few hundred of micrometers. The ground substance of the dentin affected by caries is physiologically remineralizable and is not biochemically or physically different from that of sound dentin, in contrast to denatured caries-infected dentin.
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