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Care of incipient carious lesions as well as care
of established caries is changing toward improving outcomes.
Evaluating then lowering the carious risk is a
"must" in any dental office taking care of health and
aesthetics.
Individual dental prophylaxis offers a protocol
for the evaluation of the carious risk, then for the reduction of
this risk.
A customized treatment protocol tends to achieve through successive
steps an optimized risk for each individual.
Surface treatments have a direct impact on dental
tissues and may be sufficient to stop or even reverse incipient
carious lesions.
Treatment of enamel incipient lesions as well as chemical treatment
of carious dentin aims not only at keeping a maximum of dental tissues
but also at taking advantage in using natural defences of the tooth
to limit recurrences.
Association of a medical treatment and of non-invasive
operative treatments leads to new prospects of treatment.
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