Dental Caries: new methods reveals new insights relevant to clinical treatments
Time: 2:15 PM, February 22, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Rella Christensen
Synopsis:
Research methods developed at TRAC Research using aseptic systematic dissection of dental caries lesions in situ followed by genetic sequencing are revealing new information. A key finding shows that STOPPING progression of established dental caries lesions requiresinactivation of the microbes at the lesion’s advancing front. How is the advancing front found clinically? How are the microbes inactivated? This presentation takes you visually into clinical dental caries lesions to answer these questions.
Learning Objectives:
1. List characteristics of microbes that enable them to survive within the tooth
2. Explain why tooth preparations alone do not stop lesion progression
3. Use a microbe inactivation method that targets key factors necessary to arrest the lesion, then support and protect the tissue injured by the microbes
