cavities
- plural of cavity.
Example Sentences
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Cavities form when bacteria erode tooth enamel, often due to sugary or starchy foods, inadequate brushing, or genetic factors.
From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 2025
Cavities, or caries, are the most common chronic disease in kids – five times more common than asthma and seven times more common than environmental allergies, despite being preventable.
From Salon • Oct. 16, 2022
Cavities in baby teeth can also harm the permanent teeth directly, if the tissue in the central portion of the baby tooth gets infected.
From Slate • Jul. 29, 2016
Cavities and other dental problems will be a lifelong struggle, she says.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2015
Between many of the Cavities there remain but leaves, as it were, of Stone, very thin, which part them.
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry
