While fluorescence-based caries detection devices have been shown to offer clinical decision-making support, visual inspection should continue to be the primary detection method for occlusal caries, ...

Objective To compare the accuracy and repeatability of three diagnostic systems (DIAGNOdent, visual and radiographic) for occlusal caries diagnosis in primary molars. Design Two examiner, in vitro ...

I present the case of a patient for whom I provided a sealant on a lower left second molar in April 1988, in the presence of fairly advanced occlusal caries – see bitewing radiographs (Figs 1,2).

A total of 36 teeth were sent for the validation process for detecting early caries lesions (scores 1–3). The remaining teeth were diagnosed with scores 4–5 after evaluation by all the methods ...

Led by Dr. Antonio Carlos Pereira of the Piracicaba School of Dentistry in São Paulo, Brazil, the team compared visual assessment of 96 extracted permanent molars to data obtained using four ...

This is a summary of abstract #360 "Sealing Manifest Occlusal Caries in Permanent Teeth - 2½-year Results," to be presented by V. Qvist on Thursday, March 17, 2011, 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. in ...

Forty three percent of 5-year-olds and 57% of 8-year-olds have obvious tooth decay in deciduous teeth, and between 52% and 77% of children aged 8 to 15 years have obvious tooth decay in permanent ...

Today, during the 89th General Session & Exhibition of the International Association for Dental Research, held in conjunction with the 40th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Dental ...

Today at the 45th Annual Meeting & Exhibition of the American Association for Dental Research, researcher Vibeke Qvist, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, will present a study titled "Postponing ...

Forty three percent of 5-year-olds and 57% of 8-year-olds have obvious tooth decay in deciduous teeth, and between 52% and 77% of children aged 8 to 15 years have obvious tooth decay in permanent ...

In this study, researchers investigated the possibility of postponing restorative intervention of manifest occlusal caries in the young permanent dentition by non-invasive sealing. This ...