Everyone aspires to have a youthful appearance, complete with a beaming grin. By treating skeletal and dental malocclusions that interfere with facial aesthetics, orthodontics helps patients attain a beautiful face and a smile they will be proud of. The diagnosis of the underlying illness or condition serves as the basis for all medical, dental, and surgical operations. Dental professionals all across the world have reaped the benefits of a major scientific advance in recent years. Many measurements may now be seen and quantified more easily using computer-assisted cephalometry. The accuracy and high quality of all dental materials have been enhanced thanks to computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacture. There have been several developments in the realm of orthodontics. The growing use of technology in recent years has transformed every sector, including medicine and dentistry. From Angle's time to today's nanorobotic age, orthodontic ideas, biomaterials, and technology have evolved greatly. It has been extensively utilized for diagnosis, treatment planning, three-dimensional printing, appliance systems, digital storage, integration, and data retrieval. The technology used in orthodontics is always getting better, and this article aims to give an overview of the most recent changes.
Background: Due to increasing problem of oral health diseases worldwide, there is urgent need of comprehensive data collection system. Traditionally, carious lesions were detected and evaluated using physical criteria that consist of size, depth, and existence or absence of cavitations. Untreated caries in children were increasing like epidemic and there is an urgent need to determine a system that can assess initiation of dental caries to advanced stages so as to determine the disease diagnosis and decide on appropriate clinical treatment. Paucity of consistent and standardized criteria to detect caries which are applicable universally is a major issue in caries measurement. This may result in confusion among clinicians, educators, and researchers in interpretation of data from various research studies, leading to apparently conflicting results. Aim: This article is presented with the aim of studying in detail about different dental caries indices used for detection, diagnosis, and estimation of dental caries. Conclusion: Reliable, reproducible, and realistic detection and estimation of dental caries lesions as a result of dental caries have been a challenge for a long time. There are many promising newer dental caries indices, which will help in identifying caries at early or precavitated stage and accurate diagnosis of dental caries.
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