Dental caries progression or reversal depends upon the balance between demineralization and remineralization. The 'Caries Balance' is determined by the relative weight of the sums of pathological factors and protective factors. Minimally invasive dentistry aims at the least possible removal of enamel or dentin, including reducing pathological factors and enhancing remineralization to avoid any ...

Mouth rinses are topical agents that can be used after adequate mechanical plaque control measures to help one keep the oral cavity clean. Children have less manual dexterity and motivation for brushing or flossing. Hence, mouth act as an adjunct removal methods in preventing dental caries, halitosis, mucositis, gingival/periodontal diseases children. provide effective biofilm do wonders health...

abstract background: accumulation of secretions in the airways of patients with an endotracheal tube and mechanical ventilation will have serious consequences. one of the most common methods of airway clearance is endotracheal suctioning. in order to facilitate discharge of airway secretion resulting in promotion of gas exchange, chest physiotherapy techniques can be used at the time of expirat...

Another study [5] , a randomized controlled clinical trial in Scotland, showed that the conventional caries treatment of primary teeth seems unjustified. This trial used a specific new ‘Hall’ technique [6] , a simplified method of using preformed metal crowns cemented with no local anaesthesia, caries removal or tooth preparation. The study was a GDP-based, split-mouth randomized controlled tri...

The recording of multiple interval-censored failure times is common in dental research. Modeling multilevel data has been a difficult task. This paper aims to use the Bayesian approach to analyze a set of multilevel clustered interval-censored data from a clinical study to investigate the effectiveness of silver diamine fluoride and sodium fluoride varnish in arresting active dentin caries in C...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Mechanical removal of carious dentine based on perceived hardness is subjective and tends to be excessively destructive; chemo-mechanical techniques have been proposed as being more objective and conservative. The aims of the present study are to use X-ray microtomography (XMT/micro-CT) to determine the three-dimensional mineral concentration distribution in sound, carious and e...

AIM The objective of this study was to determine the association between DIAGNOdent laser and caries detector dye in detection of the remaining caries in restorative cavities. MATERIALS AND METHODS The sample consisted of 100 cavities prepared in patients referring to the Department of Restorative Dentistry of Mashhad Dental School. After confirming caries absence by tactile examination, the ...