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An Insight to Occult Caries- An Overview with a Novel Approach in the Management
Poornima P1*, Dhanya S. Kumar3, Ashwini2, Nagaveni NB11Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, College of Dental Sciences, Davangere, India
2Dept of Oral Pathology, College of Dental Sciences, Davangere, India
3College of Dental sciences, Davangere, India
- *Corresponding Author:
- Dr. Poornima P, MDS
Professor and Head of department
Pediatric and Preventive dentistry
College of Dental Sciences, Davangere, India
Tel: +91-8105482841
E-mail: drpoornimas2@gmail.com
Received Date: May 28, 2015 Accepted Date: July 04, 2015 Published Date: July 11, 2015
Citation: Poornima P, Dhanya SK, Ashwini, Nagaveni NB (2015) An Insight to Occult Caries- An Overview with a Novel Approach in the Management . J Oral Hyg Health 3:180. doi:10.4172/2332-0702.1000180
Copyright: © 2015 Dr. Poornima P et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits
unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Dental caries appears to be the most prevalent infectious disease in the world. Occult caries/ hidden carious lesions are very challenging for detection as far as dentists are concerned. However, the nature of these lesions, their etiologies and the reasons of why they have eluded early, clinical diagnosis are still unclear. Till date only a very few microbiological studies have been conducted to obtain an insight into the bacteriological profile of these lesions which can also be an etiological factor. The aim of this case report is to present one such case of occult caries which also includes a microbiologic analysis of the lesion. It also includes a novel approach using revascularization for the management of the affected immature tooth.
