Dental caries on tooth surfaces is still a problem in many industrialized countries. For many years, dentistry was influenced by a mechanical approach characterized by the use of high-speed rotary cutting instruments, and dentists predominantly used surgical methods to address caries. This included radical removal of diseased portions of the tooth, along with material-driven geometric extension...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effect of biannual fluoride varnish applications in preschool children as an adjunct to school-based oral health promotion and supervised tooth brushing with 1000ppm fluoride toothpaste. METHODS 424 preschool children, 2-5 year of age, from 10 different pre schools in Athens were invited to this double-blind randomized controlled trial and 328 children completed the...

Dental caries is a bacterially based disease that progresses when acid produced by bacterial action on dietary fermentable carbohydrates diffuses into the tooth and dissolves the mineral, that is, demineralization. Pathological factors including acidogenic bacteria (mutans streptococci and lactobacilli), salivary dysfunction, and dietary carbohydrates are related to caries progression. Protecti...

The minimal intervention in dentistry (MID) is a response to traditional concepts of operative dentistry developed by Black, more than a century ago. The MID philosophy is based on the knowledge of caries disease process and adhesive dentistry. Its main goal is to maintain tooth in function for life. Some procedures/protocols that represent MID philosophy are caries risk assessment, early carie...

This discussion explores the rationale behind the use of a caries detection aid, the materials currently available, and a case presentation where a caries detection device is used in the treatment of caries in a teenage patient. Although caries detection may not be used in the treatment of every decayed tooth, it can be very effective in making sure all caries are removed, as well as allowing f...

BACKGROUND Among the various oral ailments which have been observed in elderly, root caries is a significant one. Tooth loss is chief oral health-related negative variable to the quality of life in elderly and root caries is the major cause of tooth loss in them. It has been reported about a third of older population bears most of the root caries burden, so the present study aimed to assess the...

Reasons for tooth loss is a crude index o f the dental health of a community, and was determined in a sample o f 600 Blacks on the Witwatersrand. Dental caries with or with­ out concurrent pathology was responsible for 67 per cent of tooth loss, periodontal disease for 19 per cent, trauma for 5 per cent, impacted teeth for 3 per cent and prosthetic reasons for 2 per cent. Dental caries was the ...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of the present study were to assess the prevalence rate of caries on individual permanent tooth surfaces, and to compare individual tooth surface caries rates among gender and age groups. METHODS Without drying the teeth, examinations were performed with dental mirrors and blunt, sickle-shaped explorers under a dental chair light, according to WHO recommendations. ...

Purpose: The aim of this cross-sectional study was to evaluate the impact different body mass index status on dental caries, tooth development, and eruption regarding development tissues health problems. 
 Materials & Methods: One-hundred-seventy-six children, aged between 3-12 years old, were included in distributed into 4 groups (n:44) according their as underweight, healthy, overwei...

Dental caries continues to be one of the most prevalent chronic diseases worldwide. A multi-factorial disease that involves tooth structure, oral microbiota, and dietary carbohydrates, “tooth decay” results in the dissolution of the mineral content of teeth and must be thought of as dependent on its key contributing factors. With ramifications ranging from societal to psychological to medical, ...