Review article

Ozone Treatment of Initial Lesions

Alena Knežević
Zrinka Tarle
Katica Prskalo

Abstract

Caries is a disease of hard dental tissue caused by the following factors: host (the tooth), cause (microorganisms), environmental influence and time. With improved technology new, contemporary, methods of diagnosing caries lesions have been introduced, one of the most important being laser fluorescence. Parallel with the development of new diagnostic methods, the classical “Black’s principle” of cavity preparation, was replaced, first with “minimally invasive non-traumatic dentistry”, and more recently with “ozone therapy”. Bactericide and disinfective properties of ozone enabled a new concept of “painless therapy” in treatment of caries lesions.

Keywords

caries; diagnostics; ozone therapy

Hrčak ID:

2360

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/2360

Publication date:

15.12.2004.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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