Minimum Intervention Dentistry
(MI) - An Overview
MI is a philosophy
of professional care, concerned with
the first-occurrence, earliest detection and earliest possible treatment
of disease on
micro (molecular) levels, followed by the most minimally invasive and patient
friendly options
to repair irreversible damages caused by such disease. MI aims to empower
patients (through information, skills and motivation)
to be in charge of their own oral health, so that they
only require minimum intervention from the dental profession.
Based on MI understanding, caries is considered to be an infectious
bacterial disease, resulting into lesions of the tooth hard tissues.
The disease starts with ... Read more
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