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MANGUEIRA, Dayane Franco Barros; PASSOS, Isabela Albuquerque; PEREIRA, Ana Maria Barros Chaves  e  OLIVEIRA, Andressa Feitosa Bezerra de. Dental caries and erosion: a soon review. Odontol. Clín.-Cient. (Online) [online]. 2011, vol.10, n.2, pp. 121-124. ISSN 1677-3888.

Dental enamel is a hard tissue, des and remineralization processes is frequently because buccal fluids constant expouse. It is believed that is necessary to understand the enamel formation mechanism to understand as the organic and inorganic acids interfere in structure one for microscopic and clinical vision. This way, the aim of this work was carry out literature review about clinical and histopatological aspects of two types of dental wear: caries and erosion. It is emphasized that dental caries and erosion resulted of loss tooth tissue processes, the etiological agent action mechanism is diff erentiated by microstrutural and clinical level.

Palavras-chave : Tooth Erosion; Dental Caries; Tooth Wear.