A comparative clinical study of various methods of caries removal in children

Abstract

Caries removal with polymer burs and Carisolv were found to be as effective in caries removal and could be considered as alternatives to painful procedures as air-rotor in management of caries especially in children.

Comparison of Carisolv system vs traditional rotating instruments for caries removal in the primary dentition: A systematic review and meta-analysis

“…In three studies [14,16,21] it was not possible to extract the number of patients treated and so these studies were excluded.…”

“…From the selected studies, two were conducted in India [9,21], one in Venezuela [18], two in Greece [10,22], one in Lithuania [16], one in Serbia [15], one in Sweden [14], one in the US [23] and one in both Denmark and Portugal [17]. Two of the papers reported data from multi-center (Sweden; Denmark and Portugal) studies.…”

“…One of the studies had a crossover design [18], three were split mouth [16,17,22] and six had a parallel group design [9,10,14,15,21,23].…”

“…Most studies compared the Carisolv system [7] with the conventional rotary drill excavation for caries removal, but in three papers four different methods were reported [9,14,21].…”

The effect of polymer burs on microbiological reduction of carious dentin in deciduous teeth: a systematic review

“…Although several in vitro [4--5,9--11,13] and in vivo [6,8,12] papers evaluated the effectiveness of polymer burs in selectively re--move the infected carious dentin, their effect on the microbiological reduction is still imprecise. Thus, the aim of this study was to evalu--ate the effect of the polymer burs on the reduction of Streptococcus mutans and Lactobacillus after dentin carious excavation in de--ciduous teeth, through a quantita--tive systematic review.…”