Minimal intervention dentistry: part 1. From 'compulsive' restorative dentistry to rational therapeutic strategies

Minimal intervention dentistry: part 2. Strategies for addressing restorative challenges in older patients.

Minimal intervention dentistry (MID), a modern, evidence-based approach to caries management in dentate patients, uses a medical model whereby disease is controlled by the "oral physician" and an affiliated dental team. Geriatric MID helps clinicians to address the ever-increasing restorative challenges presented by older patients, including erosion, abrasion, demineralization, rampant coronal ...

Minimal intervention dentistry: part 1. Strategies for addressing the new caries challenge in older patients.

The aging of the population combined with increased retention of natural teeth into old age means that clinicians now face a new caries challenge in older dentate patients. An increase in the onset of dental caries is evident among patients who may not have had high levels of caries in the past and who may have undergone extensive restorative procedures during their lifetimes. Minimal intervent...

Guidelines in Restorative Dentistry

Minimal intervention dentistry in general practice.

Minimal Intervention Dentistry (MID) is a modern approach to the management of caries, which emphasizes prevention and early interception of disease, underpinned by an understanding of the role of the dental plaque biofilm in disease initiation and progression, and how this is affected by lifestyle and behavioral factors. The MID approach should be the standard of care in modern restorative den...

Minimal Intervention in Dentistry Put into Practice

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...