background: the management of deep carious lesions can be done by various techniques but residual caries dilemma still persists and bacterial reduction in cavities treated by either partial or complete caries removal techniques is debatable. so the objective of the present randomized clinical trial was to compare microbial counts in cavities submitted to complete caries removal and partial cari...

AIM The goal of the study was to evaluate the effect of caries removal by three various methods on the permeability of class II composite resin restorations in primary molar teeth. MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty-five recently extracted primary molars were randomly assigned to three groups for three different methods of caries removal; group 1-mechanical, group 2-caries detector dye, and group 3-...

AIM The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of removing dentine caries using carbide burs, Carisolv with hand instruments and Carisolv in combination with a new mechanical excavation method using a rotating brush. METHODS 36 extracted permanent teeth, with dentine caries, were assigned into 3 groups according to caries removal technique. Caries removal was monitored by checking the p...

UNLABELLED The aim was to evaluate subjectivity (using inter- and intraexaminer repeatability), the effect of examiner experience, and residual caries diagnostic accuracy with visual tactile (VT) criteria and using a caries disclosing agent (CD). Thirty teeth with occlusal caries were excavated by a single operator not involved in the diagnostic part of the study. A test area was marked in each...

Research has demonstrated the validation of specific caries risk assessment (CRA) systems, but little is known about how dental practitioners assign a caries risk level to their patients. The aim of this study was to explore dental students' decision making in caries risk assignment when using the Caries Management By Risk Assessment (CAMBRA) system. Multiple correspondence analysis and chi-squ...

The purpose of this study was to compare the performance of chemomechanical caries removal (CMCR) with that of conventional drilling for efficacy of caries removal, time spent, morphological changes and microhardness of surface dentin, and microleakage of subsequent restorations. Forty-six carious deciduous molars were randomly divided into two groups: one each for caries removal by (1) CMCR an...

Proximal dental caries remains a prevalent disease with only modest detection rates by current diagnostic systems. X-ray radiography represents the most common and successful means of diagnosing early dental caries lesions, however; many new systems are available without controlled validation of diagnostic efficacy. This study evaluated the caries detection of three new dental radiographic imag...