“…Minimally invasive treatments, such as ultraconserva tive caries removal (MertzFairhurst et al, 1998;Maltz et al, 2002), atrau matic restorative techniques (Frencken et al, 1994), and indirect pulpcapping procedures (Bjørndal et al, 1997), have shown that caries can be halted, and affect tissue remineralization. Remineralization of residual affected dentin can be promoted by the use of bioactive, ionreleasing base materials, e.g., glassionomer or resinbased calciumphosphate cements (RCPC) (Mukai et al, 1998;Dickens et al, 2003Dickens et al, , 2004Exterkate et al, 2005;Ngo et al, 2006). In vitro remineralization experiments with RCPC resulted in significantly increased mineral content, documenting the capacity of RCPC to remineralize and promote healing of mineraldeficient dentin (Dickens et al, 2003;Dickens and Flaim, 2008).…”