ArticleBritish dental journal2024
Minimum intervention oral care: staging and grading dental carious lesions in clinical practice.
Article in British dental journal, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Biomimetic Enamel Remineralization in Pediatric Dentistry: From Biological Principles to Clinical Evidence.Cureus · 2026Review
- Is there consensus for the treatment of initial to moderate caries lesions? - a Delphi first-round study.BMC oral health · 2026Article
- Nanoparticle-Enriched Sodium Fluoride Gel with and Without Er, Cr: YSGG Laser Activation: Effects on Enamel Microhardness and Sealant Bond Performance on Demineralized Enamel.Gels (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Minimum Intervention Oral Care (MIOC) - Overcoming Implementation Barriers: An International Expert Consensus.International dental journal · 2026Article
- Comparative Assessment of Fracture Resistance of Conservative and Conventional Access Cavity Preparation in Primary Molars: AnInternational journal of clinical pediatric dentistry · 2026Article
- Deep Learning-Based Dental Caries Diagnosis: A Modality-Stratified Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Faster R-CNN and Mask R-CNN.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Clinical Challenges and Therapeutic Approaches in Managing Deep Carious Lesions Close to the Pulp in Permanent Teeth: A Narrative Review.International journal of dentistry · 2026Review
- Six-year survival and clinical performance of glass hybrid restorations following selective caries removal in teeth with molar incisor hypomineralization: a prospective cohort study.Clinical oral investigations · 2025Article
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Abstract
Developmental staging of carious lesions is pivotal for appropriate ethical clinical decision-making in contemporary caries management. Accurate assessment of lesion extent/severity (staging) and activity (grading) allows practitioners to provide the most appropriate preventive advice and suitable interventions, enabling the implementation of evidence-based, person-focused, prevention-based, team-delivered and susceptibility-related phased minimum intervention oral care. Minimally invasive dentistry remains an important operative interventive option for cavitated lesions, but intervening at the right stage ensures patients are not started on an irreversible, destructive restorative cycle unnecessarily. This article provides an update on recommended practical methods for staging the extent/severity and grading the activity of dental carious lesions, especially for those clinical teams delivering primary care and needing to navigate remuneration systems.
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