Restorative Dentistry facing Global Mercury Agreement

Restorative Dentistry facing Global Mercury Agreement

On January 19, 2013, over 140 member states that attended at Minamata Convention in Geneva agreed to the Global Mercury Agreement. The new treaty puts in control and ultimately banned production, export and import of a range of mercury-containing products by 2020. These include batteries, switches, fluorescent lamps, soaps, cosmetics, and nonelectronic medical devices such as thermometers and b...

Guidelines in Restorative Dentistry

Guideline on Pediatric Restorative Dentistry

Purpose The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) presents this guideline to assist the practitioner in the restorative care of infants, children, adolescents, and persons with special health care needs. The objectives of restorative treatment are to repair or limit the damage from caries, protect and preserve the tooth structure, reestablish adequate function, restore esthetics (where...

Melding Endodontics with Restorative Dentistry

Study Protocol in Restorative Dentistry

Research has often been considered an enigma by most of us a privilege of the exclusives of the profession. But research simply means 're-search' the existing facts either to solve a problem or improve an existing system all along the process adding more new facts to the profession. Being an action packed speciality, most of us aspire to be a clinician rather than an academician or a scientist.