Efficacy of silver diamine fluoride for Arresting Caries Treatment.

مروری بر کاربردهای فلوئورید دی‌آمین نقره (Silver Diamine Fluoride) در دندانپزشکی

  U ntreated caries are common findings in low-income communities. Treatment of dental caries in young children is challenging and requires a high skill and high cost of dental anesthesia for control ling patients and thus, chemical methods for arresting dental caries have been proposed. Silver Diamine Fluoride (SDF) is a material that is used to control and to arrest dental caries , especially...

Caries remineralisation and arresting effect in children by professionally applied fluoride treatment – a systematic review

BACKGROUND As a low-cost and easily operated treatment, the use of professionally applied topical fluoride was approved for preventing dental caries and remineralising early enamel caries or white spot lesions. It is also used to arrest dentine caries. The aim of this study is to investigate the clinical efficacy of professional fluoride therapy in remineralising and arresting caries in childre...

Topical silver diamine fluoride for dental caries arrest in preschool children: A randomized controlled trial and microbiological analysis of caries associated microbes and resistance gene expression.

OBJECTIVES The Stopping Cavities Trial investigated effectiveness and safety of 38% silver diamine fluoride in arresting caries lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled superiority trial with 2 parallel groups. The sites were Oregon preschools. Sixty-six preschool children with ≥1 lesion were enrolled. Silver diamine fluoride (38%) or placebo (...

Title Randomized clinical trial on effectiveness of silver diamine fluoride and glass ionomer in arresting dentine caries in preschool children

Chairside Guide: Silver Diamine Fluoride in the Management of Dental Caries Lesions.

Dental caries affects about one out of four children aged 2-5 years.1 Silver diamine fluoride (SDF), recently approved for use in the United States, has been shown to be efficacious in arresting caries lesions.2,3 It is a valuable therapy which may be included as part of a caries management plan for patients. Caries lesions treated with SDF usually turn black and hard. Stopping the caries proce...