10.1055/b-0034-84414 Noninvasive Therapy: 11 Caries Management by Modifying Diet Bennett T. Amaechi As described in the previous chapters, caries occurs when the equilibrium between the teeth and the biofilm is…
10.1055/b-0034-84422 Invasive Therapy: 19 Minimally Invasive Therapy with Tooth-Colored Direct Restorative Materials Roland Frankenberger, Uwe Blunck Minimally invasive caries therapy with composites has revolutionized restorative dentistry.1–3 With the help of…
10.1055/b-0034-84423 Treatment Decision: 20 Decision-Making in Managing the Caries Process Hendrik Meyer-Lueckel, Martin J. Tyas, Michael J. Wicht, Sebastian Paris To arrive at an appropriate, efficient, minimally interventional approach for…
10.1055/b-0034-84427 24 Diagnostics, Treatment Decision, and Documentation Sebastian Paris, Rainer Haak, Hendrik Meyer-Lueckel The theoretical fundamentals of modern caries diagnosis and therapy were discussed in the preceding chapters. In the…
10.1055/b-0034-84421 Invasive Therapy: 18 How Much Caries Do We Have to Remove? David N. J. Ricketts Fig. 18.1a–c Upper molar tooth with occlusal caries just into dentin (a) and when…
10.1055/b-0034-84425 Special Aspects in Children and the Young: 22 Individualized Caries Management in Pediatric Dentistry Christian H. Splieth, Mohammad Alkilzy Apart from the previous chapter, this book has mainly dealt…
10.1055/b-0034-84426 A Glimpse into the Future: 23 Future Trends in Caries Research Brian Clarkson, Agata Czajka-Jakubowska Over the past three decades, the terms tissue engineering, nanotechnology, genetic engineering, probiotics, genomics,…
10.1055/b-0034-84424 Special Aspects in Children and the Young: 21 How to Maintain Sound Teeth: an Individualized Population Strategy for Children and Adolescents Kim R. Ekstrand Based on the previous chapters,…
10.1055/b-0034-84417 Adhesion: 14 Basics in Adhesion Technology Bart Van Meerbeek, Yasuhiro Yoshida Although noninvasive interventions might be successful in inhibiting the development or further progression of a caries lesion, their…
10.1055/b-0034-84413 Noninvasive Therapy: 10 Caries Management by Modifying the Biofilm Sebastian Paris, Christ of Doerfer, Hendrik Meyer-Lueckel There′s an old saying in dentistry that “a clean tooth never decays.” Accordingly,…
10.1055/b-0034-84418 Microinvasive Therapy: 15 Fissure Sealing Hafsteinn Eggertsson It is over four decades since the introduction of sealants into dentistry in the form of research that also ushered in adhesive…
10.1055/b-0034-84412 Diagnostics and Epidemiology: 9 From Diagnostics to Therapy Sebastian Paris, Hendrik Meyer-Lueckel, Kim R. Ekstrand The dental profession remains strongly influenced by a “drill and fill” mentality, that is,…
10.1055/b-0034-84404 The Disease: 1 Ecology of the Oral Cavity Kim R. Ekstrand, Domenick T. Zero In simplified terms, dental caries develops because certain bacteria in the oral cavity ferment carbohydrates…
10.1055/b-0034-84416 Noninvasive Therapy: 13 Oral Health Promotion: Implementation of Noninvasive Interventions and Health-Related Behaviors to Control the Caries Process Hendrik Meyer-Lueckel, Sebastian Paris So far in this book the pathogenesis…
10.1055/b-0034-84414 Noninvasive Therapy: 11 Caries Management by Modifying Diet Bennett T. Amaechi As described in the previous chapters, caries occurs when the equilibrium between the teeth and the biofilm is…
10.1055/b-0034-84419 Microinvasive Therapy: 16 Sealing of Approximal Surfaces Stefania Martignon, Kim Ekstrand The general decrease in caries experience among children and adolescents in the past 30 years1 is based on…
10.1055/b-0034-84409 Diagnostics and Epidemiology: 6 Radiographic and Other Additional Diagnostic Methods Rainer Haak, Michael J. Wicht Many sites that have a predilection for caries naturally lie in regions of the…
10.1055/b-0034-84405 The Disease: 2 Etiology and Pathogenesis of Caries Peter Shellis As described in Chapter 1, teeth are continuously bathed in saliva, one of the main functions of which is…
10.1055/b-0034-84408 Diagnostics and Epidemiology: 5 Visual–Tactile Detection and Assessment Kim R. Ekstrand, Stefania Martignon The terms detection and assessment with respect to caries lesions have not been widely adopted so…
10.1055/b-0034-84411 Diagnostics and Epidemiology: 8 Epidemiology of Caries and Noncarious Defects U. Schiffner The early chapters of this book (Chapters 1–3) dealt with the fundamental ecology of the oral cavity…
