Prosthodontics

  • Don’t risk your beautiful restorative work being undermined by recurrent decay
  • Give your patients the confidence to invest in their smile
  • Restore the teeth that need it and then protect the whole smile for life

Want a more predictable system?

Many practitioners are finding less predictable results and higher failure rates for their dentistry than they, or their patients, would like.

Understanding the role of bacteria within the biofilm that coats our teeth is becoming an even greater part of everyday dentistry. CaMBRA and bacterial screening is a quick and efficient way to help manage the longevity of prosthodontics. Educate your patients with regard to known risk factors. An effective homecare program may also be needed to correct and maintain desirable biofilm ecology which prevents recurrent decay.

The latest caries research has identified a number of key concepts:

  • The caries infection is not pathogen specific, it is a biofilm disease and currently there are more than 30 identified bacterial species implicated in the disease process.
  • pH is the strongest “selection pressure” that determines whether these cariogenic strains are present at pathogenic levels.
  • Key risk factors can determine a patients’ susceptibility to this infection or bacterial imbalance.

A new level of understanding:

Dr. John Kois states that “caries risk assessment identifies patients at risk for dental caries even before they have expressed the disease and best targets treatment for those patients that have already expressed the disease. We need to find ways, like CariFree, to help our patients move from the repair model to the wellness model.”

Solutions for your practice

  • Establish a simple evidence based risk assessment protocol that can be easily incorporated within your examination process.
  • You already identify patients who are susceptible to the caries disease, those patients who have cavities. Determine what recommendation can be made in addition to the restorative work to treat and correct the underlying bacterial imbalance.
  • Take a look at the products you currently recommend and confirm if they treat the underlying infection or just repair or remineralize the damaged site.
  • Consider the pH of any oral healthcare products that the patient may use and its effect on the oral environment.