| Abstract [eng] |
Dental caries, a disease of dental hard tissues, is the most prevalent non-communicable illness in the world. Traditional therapies for caries removal are frequently connected with pain and anxiety; hence, alternative therapeutic techniques have been created in the direction of more conservative and pleasurable treatments. The alternatives include chemomechanical caries removal and laser treatment. This systematic study intended to evaluate the efficacy, efficiency and patient acceptability of various alternative caries removal techniques in contrast to conventional techniques. The databases of Cochrane Library, Embase, Medline/PubMed, ScienceDirect, Web of Science, semantic scholar, and Clinical Trials were searched. The results for the chemomechanical caries removal showed that there is no statistically significant difference regarding the efficacy. In terms of efficiency it performed worse than the conventional method. Regarding discomfort and anxiety the chemomechanical caries removal performed better. The results for the laser treatment are similar regarding the efficacy but the treatment with laser tended to be longer than the conventional method aswell. In terms of need for anesthesia and patient discomfort the laser is preferred over the conventional treatment. In order to establish their potency as an effective caries removal agent a good number of clinical trials are needed. |
