1Universidade Estadual de Campinas UNICAMP, Piracicaba Dental School, Department of Restorative Dentistry, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil 2Universidade Estadual Paulista UNESP, Araçatuba Dental School, Department of Restorative Dentistry, Araçatuba, SP, Brazil 3Universidade Estadual de Campinas UNICAMP, Piracicaba Dental School, Department of Social Dentistry, Area of Statistics, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil

www.medigraphic.org.mx * Full time professor at the School of Dentistry, Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mexico, Graduate degree in Research and Imaging. § General Physician, Graduate, School of Medicine, Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mexico. II Full time instructor and coordinator of Restorative Dentistry Specialty School of Dentistry of the Autonomous University of Yucatan, DDS, Special...

BACKGROUND Restorative Justice is an approach to responding to youth offending that aims to be collaborative and conciliatory rather than adversarial. In this respect, it is a welcome innovation in justice, welfare, and educational settings, and is gaining favour around the world. To date, however, the Restorative Justice literature has not considered the possible implications of unidentified l...

PURPOSE Since properly placed and retained sealants can reduce the incidence of caries lesions and save subsequent restorative costs, the purpose of this study was to compare the subsequent restorative cost in a group of predominantly African American Medicaid children who received prior sealants to that of a group of children who did not receive sealants. METHODS Dental claims of 2 cohorts o...

350 The excessive differential wear of teeth and restorative materials has significant deleterious effects on the biologic, functional, and esthetic condition of the masticatory system. However, controlled investigations of numerous factors that might influence tooth and restoration wear have been mainly laboratory studies, the findings of which might not correlate with either the physical prop...

42 Friedman—Lymphoma Treatment Michael Friedman, ND, is Executive Director for the Association of Advancement of Restorative Medicine and Chief Scientific Officer for Restorative Formulations, Montpelier, Vermont. Joshua Baisley, BSc (Hons), is a medical writer in Ontario, Canada, with over 7 years of preclinical and clinical research experience in natural health products; he has published four...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of erosion and toothbrush abrasion on different restorative materials and human enamel. METHODS Human enamel and 5 kinds of tooth-colored restorative materials were used. The restorative materials included three composite resins (Filtek Silorane, Tetric EvoCeram, and Tetric EvoFlow), a polyacid-modified composite (Dyract Extra), ...

UNLABELLED Complex restorative cases require difficult clinical decisions regarding the final esthetic outcome in which the operator must visualize the definitive restorative position of the teeth. These critical decisions need to be made before treatment is rendered. Communicating these decisions to the patient and the treatment team are crucial prior to achieving clinical success. The estheti...