States of oral health and disease reflect the compositional and functional capacities of, as
well as the interspecies interactions within, the oral microbiota. The oral cavity exists as a …

Aim To estimate the global prevalence of early childhood caries using the WHO criteria.
Design Systematic review of studies published from 1960 to 2019. Data sources: PubMed …

Early childhood caries (ECC) is a significant chronic disease of childhood and a rising public
health burden worldwide. ECC may cause a higher risk of new caries lesions in both primary …

Dentistry has entered an era of personalized/precision care in which targeting care to
groups, individuals, or even tooth surfaces based on their caries risk has become a reality to …

Dental caries is a multifactorial disease that can be caused by interactions between genetic
and environmental risk factors. Despite the availability of caries risk assessment tools, caries …

Severe early childhood caries (S-ECC) is a multifactorial disease with strong evidence of
genetic inheritance. Previous studies suggest that variants in taste genes are associated …

Taste perception is a well-documented driving force in food selection, with variations in, eg,
taste receptor encoding and glucose transporter genes conferring differences in taste …

Maintaining a symbiotic oral microbiota is essential for oral and dental health, and host
genetic factors may affect the composition or function of the oral microbiota through a range …

Genetic risk factors play important roles in the etiology of oral, dental, and craniofacial
diseases. Identifying the relevant risk loci and understanding their molecular biology could …

Caries is a partially heritable disease, raising the possibility that a polygenic score (PS, a
summary of an individual's genetic propensity for disease) might be a useful tool for risk …