Management of Deep Carious Lesions (eBook)

Falk Schwendicke is Deputy Head of the Department of Operative and Preventive Dentistry at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Dr. Schwendicke is also an Associate Editor of BMC Trials and on the Editorial Board of Community Dentistry Oral Epidemiology. Dr. Schwendicke graduated in Dentistry in 2008 from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and subsequently worked in general practice in Germany and the UK. In 2013 he was appointed Associate Professor and Head of Section for Cariology and Preventive Dentistry at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, subsequently taking up his current post in 2015. Dr. Schwendicke holds a PhD (for a thesis on selective excavation) from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and a Master of Dental Public Health (MDPH) from the University of Manchester. His research interests include the minimal­ and micro­invasive treatment of carious lesions and evidence-based dentistry and translational research. He is a member of the editorial boards for the Journal of Dental Research and the International Journal of Dental Hygiene and has published numerous original articles in peer-reviewed journals. In 2015 he received the Lion Dental Research Award from the IADR.

Managing dental caries.- Stepwise excavation.- Caries sealing using resins.- ART.- Caries sealing using PMCs.- Inactivating carious lesions: NRCT.- Summary and recommendations, clinical pathways.