Role of the comforter as an aetiological factor in rampant caries of the deciduous dentition.

Dummies and the sudden infant death syndrome.

“…( The infants who died from SIDS (cases) were compared with 1800 control infants who were randomly selected from all births in the study regions except home births (less than 1%). The following method was used: (1) a date of interview (nominated date) was randomly selected from all 1096 days in the study period; (2) the control was then randomly allocated an age at which to be interviewed; (3) the date of birth was calculated from age and date of interview; (4) an obstetric hospital was randomly chosen in proportion to the number of births in 1986; and (5) random numbers were used to select a particular infant from those born on the date of birth in the nominated obstetric hospital.…”

Full Mouth Rehabilitation of Adult Rampant Caries with Pragmatic Approach

“…It has been defined by Massler 7 as "a suddenly appearing, widespread, rapid burrowing type of caries, resulting in early involvement of the pulp and affecting those teeth usually regarded as immune to ordinary decay." Winter 8 termed rampant caries as caries of acute onset involving many or all teeth in areas that are not susceptible and is associated with rapid destruction of the crowns with frequent involvement of the dental pulp. The incidence of rampant caries is high in children and young adolescents and less in adults.…”

Review of the Carious Lesions and Traumatic Dental Injuries

“…Many dentists consider it hopeless to repair the damaged or even to explain how it could have happened at such an early age. Rampant caries has been described by Winter et al [1] as a lesion of acute onset involving many or all of the erupted teeth, rapidly destroying coronal tissues, often on surfaces normally immune to decay, and leading to early involvement of the dental pulp .In recent study, subjects with active, rampant dental caries were defined as those who had five or more now carious surfaces per year [2]. Unfortunately, early rampant dental caries is very common today.…”