The potential
for rapid decay is the reason the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry recommends the second step of preventative dentistry, a child's first dental exam, occur no later than his or her first birthday.
Not exact matches
A fourth reason
for the
rapid demise of the Nestorian church, especially in Persia, on the onslaught of Islam was the element of
decay within the church itself.
This disease can cause severe and
rapid decay of the baby teeth, with that causing a myriad of problems
for the child.
In lampreys,
for example, certain parts of the brain and the mouth that distinguish the animals from earlier relatives begin a
rapid decay within 24 hours.
This makes sense given that the more
rapid initial response
for finite flow through the depth of the ocean reduces the radiative disequilibrium (the heat source) faster, so that it then takes longer to heat up the rest of the system (the weighted - average T of the system nearly follows the exponential
decay for that amount of heat capacity
for ~ 2 years and then lags behind).
The «second order» review draft of the SPM
for the Working Group II volume said «If current warming rates are maintained Himalayan glaciers could
decay at very
rapid rates, shrinking from the present 500,000 km2 to 100,000 km2 by the 2030s.»
The growth and
decay of continental ice sheets represents a slow feedback operating over millennia; if one is concerned with the more
rapid response of the climate to CO2, ice sheets have to be accounted
for as a major forcing.