objectives: in restorative dentistry, it is essential to estimate the amount of remnant tooth structure after caries removal to make the best treatment plan. the present study was aimed to determine whether there is a correlation between the real thickness of remnant dentin under carious lesion and the radiographical measurement from photostimulable phosphor plates (psps). methods: a whole numb...

Remineralization of demineralized dentin lesions adjacent to glass-ionomer cements (GICs) has been reported in the literature. This study tested the hypothesis that a strontium-based GIC can remineralize completely demineralized dentin by nucleation of new apatite crystallites within an apatite-free dentin matrix. Human dentin specimens were acid-etched, bonded with Fuji IXGP, and immersed in a...

While mutans streptococci have long been assumed to be the specific pathogen responsible for human dental caries, the concept of a complex dental caries-associated microbiota has received significant attention in recent years. Molecular analyses revealed the complexity of the microbiota with the predominance of Lactobacillus and Prevotella in carious dentine lesions. However, characterization o...

Whenever the tooth dentin-pulp complex is affected by caries, attrition, erosion, chemicals and abrasion, pulpal response to these injuries can stimulate inflammatory activity. Although the pulp injury caused by these irritants can be important, in many cases the most severe tissue trauma is not a direct result of these environmental or accidental events, instead, it results from the surgical t...

BACKGROUND A unique software tool has been developed to assist dentists in the difficult task of diagnosing radiographs for proximal caries. The software, called Logicon Caries Detector (Northrop Grumman Information Technology, Herndon, Va.), extracts image features and correlates them with a database of known caries problems. The Logicon software was combined with the digital radiography syste...

OBJECTIVE Considering the minimally invasive approach to dentistry, the scientific community has focused on non-invasive treatments for caries lesions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a nonsurgical approach to arrest occlusal non-cavitated dentin lesions through glass ionomer sealing. METHODS In this controlled clinical trial, 51 teeth with clinically non-cavitated occlu...