Management of Root Caries Using Ozone
DENTAL NEWS, VOLUME XI, NUMBER II, 2004 MANAGEMENT OF ROOT CARIES USING OZONE A. Baysan - Division of Restorative Dentistry and Gerodontology, Dental School, Royal Victoria Hospital, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Department of Adult Oral Health, Barts and the Royal London Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK. E. Lynch - Division of Restorative Dentistry and Gerodontology, Dental School, Royal Victoria Hospital, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. BACKGROUND OZONE CAN BE CONSIDERED AS an alternative management strategy for root caries. Recently, Baysan et al., (2000) reported that ozone application for either 10 or 20 s was effective to kill the great majority of micro- organisms in primary root carious lesions (PRCLs) in vitro and this application for a period of 10 s was also capable of reducing the numbers of Streptococcus mutans and S. sobrinus in vitro. Beighton et al., (1993) have previ...