ORO‐DENTAL STATUS OF SCHOOL CHILDREN AGED BETWEEN 7‐12 YEARS, IN THE RURAL AREAS OF DOLJ COUNTY

Introduction: The World Health Organization has a long tradition on the methodology and monitorization of oral health epidemiological investigations, even in the field of dental caries. According to the targets to be attained in 2020, at the age of 6 years, 80% of children should be cavity‐free and, at the age of 12, DMFT should be no more than 1.5. Based on WHO targets for 2020, an epidemio‐ logical study was performed on school children affected by dental caries, aged between 7‐12 years, from the rural areas of the Dolj County. Methodology: The study protocol included conventional and meticulous visual clinical examination of students, according to WHO methodology, in the Pedodontic Clinics of Craiova ‐ Faculty of Medical Dentistry. Also calculated was the DMFT index, by analy‐ sis of the DT, MT, FT components, as well as the dmft index, by analysis of the dt, mt, ft components. Results: The mean indices of carious experience in temporary den‐ tition decrease with age, due to the progressive disappear‐ ance of milk teeth. The DMFT index values are given, in particular, by components that indicate the number of teeth affected by caries and not of the blocked ones. Con‐ clusions: The results obtained emphasize the need for den‐ tal health education programs at national and community level, the kindergartens and schools having a great poten‐ tial to influence dental health care habits in children. Also emphasized was the need for regional prevention pro‐ grams, as part of an overall national program, which has to consider the socio‐economic and cultural factors

WHY USING THE STAMP TECHNIQUE IN CLASS I CAVITIES IS A FIRST CHOICE FILLING TECHNIQUE

Restoring lateral teeth with composite is always a challenge for the dentist as the morphology can be quite tricky to restore and the importance of making it perfect is crucial, not for esthetic reason but for clinical reasons, as a balanced occlusion is very important to keep. The Stamp technique helps the doctor to make the occlusal surface as it was originally, due to an impression taken of the natural morphology and replicating it on the composite filling that is done. The technique is time and cost efficient, with great clinical outcome

The Centripetal Build-Up Technique for Restoration of Interdental Contact Points – Case Report

This article presents an important topic in the field of dental medicine. Reconstruction of the contact point in the lateral interdental area is obtained using a large number of type techniques, with different materials and instruments. The centripetal build up technique involves the initial restoration of the proximal absent wall, thus transforming the second-class cavity into a first-class cavity, followed by it’s restoration. This technique provide a correct, appropriate contact point and an easy restoration of the occlusal morphology

Molecular Mechanisms of Dentine-Pulp Complex Response Induced by Microbiome of Deep Caries

Deep caries progress is associated with tertiary dentin formation and additional reversible or irreversible dental pulp inflammation. It seems that some particular signs of pain in irreversible pulpitis are associated to a particular caries microflora. Streptococcus species, Parvimonas micra and Dialister invisus are prevailing in cases of throbbing pain while Streptococcus mutans is incriminated in sensitivity to vertical percussion of tooth. Continuous pain is thought to be the clinical outcome of Lactobacillus implication. A better understanding of molecular signals and mechanisms induced by microbiome of deep caries that orchestrate the modulation of dental pulp complex response toward tertiary dentinogenesis or pulp inflammation it is supposed to improve diagnosis and conservative therapies of vital pulp