A 2023 randomized controlled trial in the Journal of Dentistry found that the bulk-fill base technique reduced procedure time ...

Children with a high-risk for dental caries may be effectively screened for early presence of non-cavitated lesions utilizing telehealth technologies. [1, 2] Children can be screened with an ...

Bitewing imaging was done using the PSP digital sensor. Five examiners reviewed the images, and lesions were recorded. Caries diagnosis indicators and paired-sample t-test were used for statistical ...

HealthDay News — Cessation of public water fluoridation would increase tooth decay and health system costs in the United States, according to a study published online May 30 in JAMA Health Forum. Sung ...

Why is it important to improve the detection of dental caries (tooth decay)? Dentists often aim to identify tooth decay that has already advanced to a level which needs a filling. If dentists were ...

The assessment of caries activity comprises the evaluation of etiological factors associated with the clinical examination of caries lesions. 2 Bacterial plaque, tooth and other biological factors act ...

When the spot is between 2 millimeters and 1 centimeter, it is referred to as purpura. These lesions are typically raised and painless, although some can feel tender. Unlike petechiae, purpura rashes ...

Overall caries incidence in enamel was 4 new lesions/100 surface-years (NL/100), and decreased over the period. Incidence of progression from enamel to dentine was 4.7 NL/100 and also decreased.

New research suggests that removing fluoride from America's public water systems would increase tooth decay in children and costs for dental care. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F ...

The objective of this study was to compare two new non-cavitated caries lesion detector methods, LumiCare (LC) and BlueCheck (BC), to each other and to the traditional visual/tactile method (TM) of ...