Calcium Hydroxide-based Therapeutic Pads as the Main Material in the Treatment of Deep Caries
Tamara Georgievna Tsagaraeva
Deaprtment of Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, North Ossetian State Medical Academy, Pushkinskaya Street, 40, Vladikavkaz, Republic of North Ossetia, 362007, Russia and North Caucasus Federal University, Pushkina Street, 1. Stavropol, 355000, Russia.
Madina Kazbekovna Slanova
Deaprtment of Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, North Ossetian State Medical Academy, Pushkinskaya Street, 40, Vladikavkaz, Republic of North Ossetia, 362007, Russia and North Caucasus Federal University, Pushkina Street, 1. Stavropol, 355000, Russia.
Tamiris Aslanovna Aldatova
Deaprtment of Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, North Ossetian State Medical Academy, Pushkinskaya Street, 40, Vladikavkaz, Republic of North Ossetia, 362007, Russia and North Caucasus Federal University, Pushkina Street, 1. Stavropol, 355000, Russia.
Amina Ahmedova Kurueva
North Caucasus Federal University, Pushkina Street, 1. Stavropol, 355000, Russia and Dagestan State Medical University, Makhachkala, Dagestan, 367950, Russia.
Evgeniya Nikolaevna Semkina
North Caucasus Federal University, Pushkina Street, 1. Stavropol, 355000, Russia and Nevinnomyssk State Humanitarian and Technical Institute, Nevinnomyssk, 357108, Russia.
Edita Garnikovna Margaryan
North Caucasus Federal University, Pushkina Street, 1. Stavropol, 355000, Russia and Nevinnomyssk State Humanitarian and Technical Institute, Nevinnomyssk, 357108, Russia.
Kristina Timurovna Tamoeva
North Caucasus Federal University, Pushkina Street, 1. Stavropol, 355000, Russia and Nevinnomyssk State Humanitarian and Technical Institute, Nevinnomyssk, 357108, Russia.
Konstantin Anatolevich Zenin
North Caucasus Federal University, Pushkina Street, 1. Stavropol, 355000, Russia and I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University), Trubetskaya Street, 8.2, Moscow, 119991, Russia.
Sergey Nikolaevich Povetkin
North Caucasus Federal University, Pushkina Street, 1. Stavropol, 355000, Russia and Essentuki Institute of Management Business and Law, Essentuki, 357601, Russia.
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Abstract
The article is devoted to increasing the efficiency of treatment of deep caries, which is an urgent problem of modern dentistry. The aim of this study was to evaluate the results of the treatment of deep caries using the KERR "Life" calcium hydroxide treatment liner, which is a radiopaque, durable material based on calcium hydroxide and salicylate ester, recommended for direct or indirect pulp capping and as a cementitious base for all restorative filling materials. The study involved 26 patients. The studies carried out have confirmed the efficiency of the treatment of deep caries with the Life pad and confirmed the possibility of its widespread use in practice.
Keywords: Materials for medical pads, calcium hydroxide, bactericidal effect