title: Minimal intervention dentistry procedures: a ten year retrospective study.
abstract: Minimal Intervention Dentistry (MID) is an effective treatment approach with increasing acceptance among dental professionals.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study aimed to evaluate the MID impact on Dentistry by analyzing procedures performed on patients treated at a Pediatric Dentistry Graduate Program clinic which implemented MID.
  
  
  METHODS
  The number of procedures including sealants, modified atraumatic restorative treatment (mART), resin crowns, direct pulp capping, pulpotomy, pulpectomy, and deciduous/ permanent extractions from 333 pediatric patients treated between the years 2001 to 2003 and 2008 to 2010 in Distrito Federal, Brazil were analyzed. Statistical analysis involved chi-square and G Williams tests.
  
  
  RESULTS
  783 procedures were analyzed and demonstrated that there was a significant reduction of sealant placement in the last triennium when compared to the first one (p<0.0001). Moreover, there was a significant increase in the amount of mART (p<0.0001). This increase in mART procedures resulted in a significant reduction in procedures with pulp involvement: direct pulp capping (p=0.0014), pulpotomy (p=0.0014) and pulpectomy (p=0.0002).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Based on the results, MID represented a positive impact on the intervention on caries lesions in patients, mainly reflected by the significant reduction in the number of direct pulp capping, pulpotomy and pulpectomy.
authors: Pediatric Dentistry Department, Catholic University of Brasilia, Brazil.
authors: Mfl
authors: M
authors: Freitas
authors: Brasilia, Brazil.
authors: Jm
authors: J
authors: Santos
authors: Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Fuks
authors: Health Science Center, University of Brasilia, Brazil.
authors: Acb
authors: A
authors: Bezerra
authors: Pediatric Dentistry Department, Catholic University of Brasilia, Brazil.
authors: Tdpl
authors: T
authors: Azevedo
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003188:Composite Resins / Q000737:chemistry; D003442:Crowns / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D057087:Dental Atraumatic Restorative Treatment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003764:Dental Materials / Q000737:chemistry; D003785:Dental Pulp Capping / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003793:Dental Restoration, Permanent / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010377:Pediatric Dentistry / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010895:Pit and Fissure Sealants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011670:Pulpectomy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011672:Pulpotomy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014081:Tooth Extraction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014094:Tooth, Deciduous / Q000601:surgery
chemical_list: D003188:Composite Resins; D003764:Dental Materials; D010895:Pit and Fissure Sealants
keywords: Atraumatic Restrorative Treatment; Minimal Intervention Dentistry; Pulp Therapy