... agents. In pits and fissures, composite resin materials can be used as preventive sealants and for defect-oriented minimally invasive restorations. In primary molars, preformed metal crowns are more successful than multisurface fillings, especially in caries-active patients. With persisting high caries...

... varnish or silver diamine fluoride seemed to be more efficacious to arrest root caries compared to conventional fluoride toothpaste or placebo respectively. However, this conclusion is based only on a few randomized clinical trials. For micro-invasive treatments, only 2 studies focusing on sealants were...

.... As a positive control, 1 lesion was superficially sealed with a fissure sealant. The second lesion in each specimen served as an untreated control. The specimens were inserted into intraoral appliances and worn by 11 volunteers in the mandibular buccal sulcus for 100 days. Plaque accumulation was promoted...

...E.H. Verdonschot; P. Rondel; M.C.D.N.J.M. Huysmans The use of sealants and sealant restorations has increased considerably over the past 10 years, and with it increased the problem of detecting secondary caries and marginal (micro)leakage. It was the purpose of this study to investigate...

...A. Otsuki; M. Takeuchi A simple and rapidly setting fissure sealant was developed using thixotropic ethyl 2-cyanoacrylate: before application, the sealant containing 10–20 parts of colloid-sized silica, is placed on a small amount of dimethylformamide as a mild initiator, mixed and then applied...

...C. Deery; J. Iloya; Z.J. Nugent; V. Srinivasan The principal aim of this in vitro study was to assess the validity and reproducibility of the detection of occlusal caries using laser fluorescence (LF), prior to and following the placement of a clear fissure sealant. It also aimed to compare...

...S. Paris; H. Meyer-Lueckel; J. Mueller; M. Hummel; A.M. Kielbassa The use of sealants for the infiltration of proximal enamel lesions could be a promising alternative to the common strategies of remineralization and operative treatment. The aim of the present study was to compare the progression...