Management of dental caries guided by the ICDAS-LAA: a 28-month follow-up.

Dental caries is a significant oral health issue and public health concern. Currently conceptualized as a dynamic and multifactorial process, caries is a continuum of disease stages, during which tooth damage may be reversed or controlled, depending on lesion progression. The International Caries Detection and Assessment System, when used in conjunction with the Lesion Activity Assessment (ICDAS-LAA), reflects the dynamic caries process and allows the classification of cavitated lesions according to their severity and progression, which is essential to selecting the appropriate treatment.

Delayed Light Activation Improves Color Stability of Dual-Cured Resin Cements.

Purpose: To evaluate the color change caused by post-irradiation conversion (ΔE and ΔE ) and artificial aging (ΔE ) of resin cements light activated through ceramics of different opacities immediately and 6 minutes after manipulating the material.

Materials And Methods: Resin cement disks (Allcem and LuxaCore) were light activated through ceramics (without ceramic, e.max HT, LT, and MO) immediately and 6 minutes after the manipulation (n = 10).