Factors Affecting the Formation, Severity and Location of White Spot Lesions during Orthodontic Treatment with Fixed Appliances

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Date of Acceptance: 24/02/2014 Copyright © Khalaf K. Published in the JOURNAL OF ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL RESEARCH (http://www.ejomr.org), 1 April 2014. This is an open-access article, first published in the JOURNAL OF ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL RESEARCH, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work and is properly cited. The copyright, license information and link to the original publication on (http://www.ejomr.org) must be included. Acknowledgements: The author report no conflicts of interest related to this study. The author would like to thank Kim-Weng Tan (Dental School, University of Aberdeen) for his help in the collection of some of the data and Dr. Tatiana Macfarlane (Dental School, University of Aberdeen) for her comments on the manuscript.Non peer reviewedPublisher PD