[Non-restorative cavity treatment: from guidelines to the practice].

The new KIMO guidelines ‘Oral Health Care for Children’ approach caries as a behavioural related disease and unequivocally assign priority to causal caries treatment, emphasising lifestyle and behavioural changes. The 5-step concept of non-restorative caries treatment (NRCT) is recommended as treatment of choice for cavitated dentine lesions in primary dentition. Communicative aspects of NRCT are supported by limited technical interventions, for the purpose of effective oral care.

[Neurotoxicity of sedatives and anaesthetics in young children].

Many histological studies, animal experiments and also human studies during the past 30 years have proven that the use of general anaesthesia in young children under the age of four can have a permanent effect on the brain, which is still developing, and can therefore cause learning and/or behaviour problems later in life. This knowledge has to be taken seriously into account in the discussion with parents whether general anaesthesia is really necessary for the treatment of Early Childhood Caries in very young children.

[Neglect of oral care in children: a matter of integral approach].

Inadequate oral care will eventually result in pain and inflammation. Inadequate oral care in children may be the result of ignorance, inability to deal with an uncooperative child or parental neglect. Poorly cared-for dentition in a child may be a sign of child neglect as defined by the Royal Dutch Medical Association's (KNMG) Reporting Code "Child Abuse and Domestic Violence".

Comparison of proximal contacts of Class II resin composite restorations in vitro.

This study investigated the tightness of the proximal contact when placing posterior resin composite restorations with circumferential and sectional matrix systems in an in vitro model using a special measuring device (Tooth Pressure Meter). A manikin model was used with an artificial first molar in which an MO-preparation was ground, simulating the clinical situation of an amalgam replacement. This preparation was duplicated, resulting in 160 identically prepared teeth.