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REMINERALIZATION OF EARLY CARIES LESIONS WITH GLASS IONOMER CEMENTSKeywords: early child-ho-od ca-ri-es , whi-te spots , glass iono-mer ce-ments , re-sto-ra-ti-on of pri-mary te-eth Abstract: In this pa-per we ha-ve com-pa-red cli-ni-cal re-sults af-ter re-mi-ne-ra-li-za-ti-on pro-ce-du-res with glass iono-mer ce-ments (GIC) and clas-si-cal tre-at-ment with pro-fes-si-o-nal to-pi-cal flu-o-ri-de ap-pli-ca-ti-on. In young chil-dren aged 12 to 30 months 45 whi-te spot le-si-ons we-re co-ve-red with GIC and glass iono-mer bond (Fu-ji II LC, Fi-ji Bond LC GC Ja-pan), whi-le 35 we-re tre-a-ted to-pi-cally with flu-o-ri-de twi-ce a we-ek, as a con-trol gro-up. Both gro-ups we-re in-clu-ded in the sa-me pro-gram of oral he-alth edu-ca-ti-on, with the sa-me me-a-su-res for cle-a-ning the te-eth re-com-men-ded.Af-ter two months of mo-ni-to-ring, the re-sults in-di-ca-te com-ple-te ab-sen-ce of ca-vi-ti-es in ex-pe-ri-men-tal, and 17 (48%) in con-trol gro-up. The-se ca-vi-ti-es had to be furt-her re-sto-red with GIC.This re-se-arch in-di-ca-tes a hig-her ra-te of sa-fe-ness when early ca-ri-es le-si-ons are pro-tec-ted with GIC.
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