Klaus W Neuhaus, Jan Kühnisch, Avijit Banerjee, Stefania Martignon, David Ricketts, Falk Schwendicke, Monique H van der Veen, Sophie Doméjean, Margherita Fontana, Adrian Lussi, Anahita Jablonski-Momeni, Fausto Medeiros Mendes, Gail Douglas, Gottfried Schmalz, Guglielmo Campus, Johan Aps, Keith Horner, Niek Opdam, Marie-Charlotte Huysmans, Christian H Splieth
INTRODUCTION: This consensus paper provides recommendations for oral health professionals on why and how to assess caries activity and progression with special respect to the site of a lesion. METHODS: An expert panel was nominated by the executive councils of the European Organization for Caries Research (ORCA) and the European Federation of Conservative Dentistry (EFCD). The steering committee built three working groups that were asked to provide recommendations on 1) caries detection and diagnostic methods, 2) caries activity and progression assessment and 3) obtain individualized caries diagnoses...
April 29, 2024: Caries Research