12 Month Follow up in Vivo Icon Study on Fluorotic Teeth

Launched by DMG DENTAL MATERIAL GESELLSCHAFT MBH · Oct 4, 2016

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ClinConnect Summary

Dental fluorosis is an endemic public health concern that develops if infants are subjected to excessive amounts of fluoride during enamel formation. Anatomopathologically, dental fluorosis presents itself as a hypermineralized surface layer and subsurface hypomineralization involving the external third of the thickness of the enamel, which is equivalent to early carious lesions. In addition, fluorosis features a number of clinical changes in the enamel surface, ranging from the appearance of thin white lines up to severe structural defects, thereby compromising overall esthetics, which som...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Questionable, Very mild, and Mild (Dean's Index) dental fluorosis as well as TF scale grades 1, 2, and 3 of the upper anterior teeth.
• • Parents of children who accept and commit to the informed consent letter collaborate with the study taking their children to each of the scheduled follow ups.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Teeth without fluorosis.
• • Teeth with hypoplasia.
• • Teeth with incipient caries lesions observed at gingival level and differentiated by the Presence of plaque.
• • Teeth previously restored or with aesthetic corrective treatments
• • Teeth with endodontic treatment.
• • Patients with low or questionable hygiene.
• • Malnourished patients or that have some underlying disease.
• • Teeth with less than two thirds of its visible crown.
• • Children that have less than six teeth in their oral cavity.
• • Allergic reaction to methylmethacrylate.