title: Research proposal: quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the ART in infants.
abstract: The accomplishment of the Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART) approach during the early childhood may represent a remarkably less traumatic and less expensive therapeutic choice. The purpose of this study is to investigate the mothers' perceptions about the ART technique in the oral health/disease process of their children diagnosed with Early Childhood Caries (ECC), and to evaluate the clinical performance of the atraumatic restorations placed in these children at six-, twelve- and twenty-four-month intervals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. marciacf@myway.com.br
authors.forename: Márcia Cançado
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Figueredo