Klaus W Neuhaus,Adrian Lussi
Klaus W Neuhaus
The difference between carious lesion diagnosis and carious lesion detection is discussed here. Concerning carious lesions, 3 diagnostic requirements should be fulfilled: to detect lesions, to assess surface integrity, and to assess lesion ...
Evidence-Based Deep Carious Lesion Management: From Concept to Application in Everyday Clinical Practice [0.03%]
基于证据的深龋管理:从理念到日常实践应用
Sophie Doméjean,Brigitte Grosgogeat
Sophie Doméjean
This chapter aims to discuss the way dental practitioners manage deep carious lesions (DCL) in routine practice and the barriers and incentives/facilitators to changes in accepted practice. In concert with the philosophy of minimal interven...
David Ricketts,Nicola Innes,Falk Schwendicke
David Ricketts
Describing and quantifying how much carious tissue should be removed prior to placing a restoration has been a long-debated issue stretching back as far as G.V. Black's "complete caries removal," now known as non-selective carious tissue re...
Nicola Innes,Falk Schwendicke,Jo Frencken
Nicola Innes
Understanding the carious process as a biofilm disease rather than an infectious disease has changed lesion management focus towards less invasive options. This has led to new and ongoing changes in recommendations for practitioners. Howeve...
Ruth Santamaría,Nicola Innes
Ruth Santamaría
In line with reducing the invasiveness of interventions in permanent teeth and changes towards more biological approaches, there have also been moves away from traditional restorative approaches to managing primary teeth where carious denti...
Nicola Innes,Mark Robertson,Falk Schwendicke
Nicola Innes
Dental caries, the most common chronic disease in the world, affects over 3 billion people globally. Its management comprises a large proportion of dental care providers' clinical responsibility, yet despite the extensive evidence base for ...
Guus van Strijp,Cor van Loveren
Guus van Strijp
Non-restorative cavity control (NRCC) is a 3-part treatment option for dentine cavities in the primary dentition, for root carious lesions and cavitated coronal smooth surface lesions. The first part is that the patient's oral hygiene proce...
Soraya Leal,Clarissa Bonifacio,Daniela Raggio et al.
Soraya Leal et al.
Atraumatic restorative treatment (ART) is a method of managing dental caries based on 2 pillars: sealants for preventing carious lesions in pits and fissures, and restorations for cavitated dentine carious lesions. ART uses only hand instru...
Jo Frencken
Jo Frencken
Despite their limitations, caries epidemiology continues to rely predominantly on visual/tactile indices for detecting and assessing carious lesion-related conditions. Over the last 4 to 5 decades, the prevalence and severity of dental cari...
Falk Schwendicke
Falk Schwendicke
Caries is no longer seen as an infectious disease, and the aim of treating carious lesions is to control their activity, not to remove the lesion itself. Such control can be implemented by sealing off the lesion from the environment, with s...