Caries has traditionally been assessed with WHO criteria including only obvious caries lesions. ICDAS has been developed to detect also the enamel caries lesions. This study aims to study caries and the associations of the number of caries lesions between the permanent and primary molars with ICDAS in the mixed dentition of the first and second grade primary school children. The clinical examin...

In present scenario, restoring non-carious cervical lesions (NCCLs) is clinically common. Major reasons for this are increased elderly population, the decreasing levels of tooth loss, and possible increase in etiologies. These factors poor brushing technique due to which gums recede, consumption corrosive foods beverages, occlusal stress concentrators (occlusal disorders, premature contact, cle...

Severe caries, attrition, abrasion, erosions of anterior teeth lead to loss of anterior guidance. This in turn causes attrition of posterior teeth and loss of occlusal vertical dimension. To gain the space for esthetic rehabilitation in these cases is cha­ llenging task. The required space can be achieved by crown lengthening and increasing the occlusal vertical dimension within physiologic lim...

PURPOSE The purposes of this study were to: (1) evaluate the retention rates of occlusal sealants in children in an urban school-based sealant program run by a County Health Department in Alabama; and (2) assess the clinical benefits of this sealant program by comparing caries experience of a group of participants and nonparticipants. METHODS The records of 2,097 children (mean age=8.1 +/- 1....

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to verify the influence of individual calibration on sound tooth surfaces and the number of readings on in vitro performance of a laser fluorescence (LF) device to detect occlusal caries in primary teeth. METHODS After standard calibration (on the porcelain reference object), 72 clinically suspect sites on occlusal surfaces of 54 exfoliated or extracted (...

Hidden caries is a type of lesion visualized in dentin, mainly by means of bitewing radiographs, in which, clinically, the occlusal enamel appears healthy or minimally demineralized and radiographically presents progressive demineralization in dentin, which may progress and compromise the pulp-dentin complex. Although the etiology of hidden caries is unknown, many theories have been studied, in...

This study determined the validity of marginal ditching and staining as criteria for the diagnosis of secondary caries around amalgam restorations. One hundred and twenty-four Class I amalgam restorations on extracted human teeth were submitted to standardized clinical examinations. A calibrated examiner recorded the presence of ditching in the tooth/restoration interface, the occurrence of blu...

Occlusal disease (OD) is a far more destructive disease than most people realize. Dr. Peter Dawson considers OD the main cause of tooth loss.1 If we accept that statement, it would mean that OD is more destructive than caries and periodontal disease! Historically dentists are very good at diagnosing caries, and are getting better at diagnosing periodontal disease. Although OD is such destructiv...

objective: the aim of the present study was to compare the performance of laser fluorescence (lf) method with other conventional diagnostic techniques in detection of small occlusal caries in permanent teeth. materials and methods: prior to this in vitro diagnostic study, a pilot study assessed intra- examiner reliability and reproducibility. the occlusal surfaces of 90 extracted human premolar...