Caries Remineralization Therapy: Implications for Dental Readiness

Dental Caries: A Current Understanding and Implications

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, ...

Dentifrices, mouthwashes, and remineralization/caries arrestment strategies

While our knowledge of the dental caries process and its prevention has greatly advanced over the past fifty years, it is fair to state that the management of this disease at the level of the individual patient remains largely empirical. Recommendations for fluoride use by patients at different levels of caries risk are mainly based on the adage that more is better. There is a general understan...

Remineralization of in vitro dental caries assessed with polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography.

Polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) is potentially useful for imaging the nonsurgical remineralization of dental enamel. This study uses an all-fiber-based PS-OCT system operating at 1310 nm to image demineralized and fluoride-enhanced remineralized artificial lesions. PS-OCT images of lesions before and after remineralization are compared with the relative mineral loss...

Ozone therapy for the treatment of dental caries.

BACKGROUND Dental caries is a bacterially mediated disease characterised by demineralisation of the tooth surface, which may lead to cavitation, discomfort, pain and eventual tooth loss. Ozone is toxic to certain bacteria in vitro and it has been suggested that delivering ozone into a carious lesion might reduce the number of cariogenic bacteria. This possibly could arrest the progress of the l...

Dental caries.