A twelve-year-old girl who is passing through puberty suddenly has several dental caries, even though for many years she has had no problem. What are caries, and why might she have become vulnerable to getting them lately?
What will be an ideal response?
Dental caries are also known as cavities, which are an erosion of the enamel and sometimes the underlying dentine of a tooth. It is likely that a person passing through puberty is growing fast enough that the calcium that strengthens the teeth is being removed to be incorporated into the long bones that are undergoing a rapid spurt of growth.
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