Atraumatic Restorative Treatment

Majority of the world's population has no access to restorative oral care; one of the main obstacles is the traditional manner of treating caries, which relies on electrically driven equipment. The basic concepts of the Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART) is the removal of decalcified dental tissues using only readily available hand instruments, following the modern concepts of cavity preparation and the use of a high technology tooth coloured adhesive restorative material to restore the tooth. Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART) has the potential to make oral health care more readily available to a larger part of the world's population than before especially among the deprived ones.

Autorentext

Dr. Vinej Somaraj arbeitet derzeit als außerordentlicher Professor am Department of Public Health Dentistry, Rajas Dental College & Hospital, Tamil Nadu, Indien, und konzentriert sich auf Forschung in den Bereichen Public Health Dentistry, Ethik und Biostatistik. Er hat verschiedene nationale und internationale Auszeichnungen, wissenschaftliche Präsentationen und Veröffentlichungen vorzuweisen.

Klappentext

Majority of the world's population has no access to restorative oral care; one of the main obstacles is the traditional manner of treating caries, which relies on electrically driven equipment. The basic concepts of the Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART) is the removal of decalcified dental tissues using only readily available hand instruments, following the modern concepts of cavity preparation and the use of a high technology tooth coloured adhesive restorative material to restore the tooth. Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART) has the potential to make oral health care more readily available to a larger part of the world's population than before especially among the deprived ones.