Study about the Influence of application time on penetration of an infiltrant into natural enamel caries
Publication year: 2011 Source: Journal of Dentistry, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 21 April 2011
Objective: Caries infiltration is an innovative approach to treat medium stages of caries that bridges the gap between preventive and invasive measures, whereby hard tissues are preserved. Special low viscosity resins (infiltrants) showed almost complete penetration into natural lesions when applied for five minutes.
Since shorter application times seem to be clinically more feasible, the aim of this in vitro study was to compare the penetration of an infiltrant (Icon pre-product; DMG, Hamburg, Germany) into natural caries lesions after various application times.