Textbook on Minimal Invasive Dentistry

In the twenty -first century greater emphasis must be placed on assessment of caries -risk shifting patients to a low caries risk status remineralizing noncavitated lesions abandoning the surgical approach to caries management and repairing rather than replacing defective restorations. Beyond the well-established and currently used methods some innovative and exciting techniques have shown early research successes that most likely will be used for early caries intervention in the future.