What is silver diamine fluoride SDF? Silver diamine fluoride (SDF) is a product dentists use to treat dental caries. It is new to the US but has been in use elsewhere for decades. SDF application is around 80% effective but teeth with “holes” still need to have a filling and we often use the SMART. […]
Silver nanoparticles Dental materials – What’s new? Silver nanoparticles are starting to be used in dental materials of all sorts. Well experimentally, anyway. There has been a bit of an uptick in research being put out and most of it looks very promising. Silver particles are already being used as antimicrobial agents for wound dressing, […]
What are the current flowable composite options? In the past I have been very critical of flowable composites, especially in the use of sealants as I would constantly see sealants that were broken or chipped. A leaking sealant is worse than no sealant and within a year or so I would see at least one […]
Dental caries – Decay – Cavity – Cavities Dental caries is the name of a disease resulting from ecologic shift within the dental biofilm that we maintain with frequent consumption of fermentable dietary carbohydrates. This results in an imbalance between demineralization and remineralization and eventually in the loss of dental hard tissue. What is dental […]
