Noha Issa Oct 21, 2006:

As Roxanna said, althoug it is redundant, it is commomly used, as many other redundancies that are widely used and accepted. http://www.bartleby.com/68/91/1291.html
It is used a lot in dentristry http://www.google.com.eg/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=1...

Roxanna Delgado (asker) Oct 21, 2006:

Liz, I understand your point because when I first saw Noha's answer that was my first thought "it is redundant". But then I looked it up on the internet and on my Larousse English-Spanish dictionary and got different opinions so I concluded it is accepted in English. Larousse: In close proximity to: muy cerca de.

The American Heritage® Book of English Usage.
A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. 1996.
2. Style: Parallelism, Passives, Redundancy, and Wordiness

§ 11. close proximity
Strictly speaking, the phrase close proximity says nothing that is not said by proximity itself. But like a few other common redundancies such as old adage and mental telepathy, this usage is too widespread and too innocuous to be worth objecting to. 1

liz askew Oct 21, 2006:

I cannot put my hand up to "in close proximity to"...poor English: see:
http://wsu.edu/~brians/errors/close.html

Noha Issa Oct 21, 2006:

Thanx Roxanna. Good luck!

liz askew Oct 20, 2006:

but "possible" just does not enter into the translation. Sorry to be so pedantic, but I have to write this because of Yazmin's comment. I only seek the most correct way to translate into English; I AM open to being told I am wrong/incorrect at any time.

liz askew Oct 20, 2006:

Just to put the record straight: "Dental caries/carious lesions" are both acceptable, from what this NHS site says:

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:uOckwj-hwgEJ:www.msm.ca...

Noha Issa Oct 20, 2006:

You can but you have to follow the teeth numbering system that corresponds to it.
Good luck :)