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.