Treatment modalities for managing a carious lesion in primary teeth have been wide-ranging. At one end of the spectrum is the traditional now obsolete technique where carious tissue is removed completely and, on the other hand, is the contemporary approach where carious tissue is not removed at all or removed selectively.
One of the most common challenges faced daily by the pediatric dentists in the clinic are when trying to save and manage primary teeth with severe coronal destruction with or without non vital pulp resulting from untreated decay or trauma.
Treating those primary teeth is a debatable issue between dentists over years. Treating those badly decayed teeth is a debatable issue between dentists over years. Many dentists follow the old myths in the practice suggest that such badly decayed and/or abscessed primary teeth should be prematurely lost and extracted. However, due to improvements and new levels of innovations in dentistry, new facts and realities has raised in the practice aimed to save and restore those teeth to its previous function and esthetics.
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Treating Carious teeth in children: from Simplicity to Complexity