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New Directions in Cariology Research 2011

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Hindawi Publishing CorporationInternational Journal of DentistryVolume 2012, Article ID 392730, 1 pagedoi:10.1155/2012/392730EditorialNew Directions in Cariology Research 2011Alexandre R. VieiraDepartment of Oral Biology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USACorrespondence should be addressed to Alexandre R. Vieira, arv11@pitt.eduReceived 22 December 2011; Accepted 22 December 2011Copyright © 2012 Alexandre R. Vieira. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons AttributionLicense, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properlycited.Due to the great success of the “New Directions in CariologyResearch” first issue, we decided to repeat the experience andhere you have the “New Directions of Cariology Research2011.” This issue coincides with the disturbing record ofanother death in the United States, a 24-year-old male fromCincinnati, OH, consequence of untreated carious lesions. Itis still a puzzle to many how a largely preventable diseaseremains highly prevalent, affecting 80% of the people alivein the globe.This special issue is a sample of the current research ef-forts addressing issues related to the pathogenesis of caries.I would like to thank the authors for their excellent contri-butions, in addition to the many colleagues who assisted inthe peer-review process. Finally, I would like to thank thesupport provided by my guest editors, Dr. F. Seymen, fromthe Istanbul University, Turkey and Dr. M. Buzalaf, from theUniversity of Sa˜o Paulo, Brazil.Aspects related to the disease presentation can be ap-preciated in Grimoud et al., Honkala et al., Y. Kawashita et al.,and Jindal et al. Caries is dependent on biofilm formation,and T. Hart et al., E. Decker et al., Tanaka et al., and M.Bockmann et al. are examples of current approaches to bet-ter understand the dynamic relationship between bacterialcolonization and the host. How fluoride in the oral cavityenvironment interferes in the process of lesion formationcontinues to be of interest and, Chow et al. further explorethis topic. Finally, genetics susceptibility to caries is anemerging area of interest in cariology, and D. Gati and A.Vieira, J. Brancher et al., and M. Levine provide examples ofthe challenges faced by this line of work.I invite you to read, evaluate, and share this collection of12 papers that comprise this 2011 Special Issue. Furthermore,I hope the readers will be interested in participating moreactively in this debate of what approaches are more efficientto revert the current figures of caries prevalence, and whataspects of this disease should be the focus of research in thecoming years.Alexandre R. Vieira

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