title: Chemomechanical caries removal for children.
abstract: Pain is still an actual problem in dentistry, and a usage of anaesthetics can be still limited, so new ways of caries treatment are still being searched in order to ease this process both to a patient and a doctor. Efficiency of chemomechanical tooth treatment to children was studied. 30 children within two age groups of 3-6 and 7-13 years took part in this research, and their teeth with caries were treated in two different ways--chemomechanical and traditional. Teeth with the same class of cavities were treated. There are presented records about the need of anaesthetics' usage, cleaning duration and patients' complaints in this study. Results show that chemomechanical treatment could be as effective as traditional one, causes less pain and lowers the need for anaesthetics. There was noticed less removal of solid tissue cleaning carious cavity.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Odontology, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Zalgirio 115, Vilnius 08217, Lithuania.
authors.forename: Irena
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Balciuniene
authors.forename: Rūta
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sabalaite
authors.forename: Inga
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Juskiene
mesh_terms: D000766:Anesthesia, Dental / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004245:DMF Index; D019140:Dental Care for Children / Q000379:methods*; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000628:therapy*; D003737:Dental Cavity Preparation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D003762:Dental Instruments; D003793:Dental Restoration, Permanent; D019229:Dentition, Permanent; D018698:Glutamic Acid / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D007930:Leucine / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D008239:Lysine / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D010146:Pain / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014094:Tooth, Deciduous; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: C119934:Carisolv; D018698:Glutamic Acid; D007930:Leucine; D008239:Lysine