Aesthetic caries infiltration - Long-term masking efficacy after 6 years.

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the masking efficacy of caries infiltration technique of initial caries lesions (ICL) six years after debonding and single treatment.

Methods: In 10 adolescents, 74 ICL (ICDAS 2) in 74 teeth were treated by resin infiltration (Icon, DMG) at a mean (SD) of 1.2 (1.

Evaluation of the masking efficacy of caries infiltration in post-orthodontic initial caries lesions: 1-year follow-up.

Objectives: This study aimed to qualitatively and quantitatively assess the masking efficacy and color stability of resin infiltration on post-orthodontic ICL after 1 year.

Materials And Methods: In 17 adolescents, 112 ICL (ICDAS-1: n = 1; ICDAS-2: n = 111) in 112 teeth were treated by resin infiltration (Icon, DMG) 3 to 12 months after bracket removal. The etching procedure was performed up to 3 times.

Correlation of quantitative light-induced fluorescence and qualitative visual rating in infiltrated post-orthodontic white spot lesions.

Objectives: The aim of this prospective, clinical single-centre study was to evaluate the masking efficacy of post-orthodontic resin infiltration after 12-month follow-up and correlate quantitative and qualitative outcome measures.

Methods: Patients with completed fixed orthodontic treatment and the presence of one or more vestibular active non-cavitated white spot lesion/s (WSL) [ICDAS 1 or 2 (International Caries Detection and Assessment System)] were provided with resin infiltration 3-12 months after bracket removal. All patients (n = 31) participating before (t0) intervention were invited again and examined after 12 months (t2).

Evaluation of the value of re-wetting prior to resin infiltration of post-orthodontic caries lesions.

Objectives: Assessment of the influence of colour changes during the re-wetting process as a possible predictor for the final result after resin infiltration to mask post-orthodontic white spot lesions.

Materials And Methods: Resin infiltration (ICON; DMG, Hamburg, Germany) was performed according to the manufacturer's recommendation with the exception of repeated, at maximum three etching procedures based on the subjective decision of the dentist during a so called re-wetting process using ethanol. The masking effect by ethanol as well as after resin infiltration was evaluated by digital images taken before, for nine seconds during re-wetting and one week after treatment using CIE L*a*b* colour space.

Short communication: Dipping efficiency and teat dip residues in milk using an automatic dipping system.

Prototypes of the automatic-dipping system Apollo were tested with the IQ milking cluster (GEA Farm Technologies GmbH, Bönen, Germany) to determine the teat-dip residues in the milk and the dipping performance (number of dipped teats) of the system compared with manual (hand) dipping. A laboratory trial and a field trial at a dairy farm were performed to determine the iodine level in the milk when an iodine-based teat dip was used. In the laboratory trial, the mean difference between the 53 paired samples (sampling upstream and downstream of the cluster) was 18.