CarieScan PRO

The CarieScan Caries Management Support Cycle can be delivered by the CarieScan PRO.

The CarieScan Caries Management Cycle helps the dental team co-ordinate caries management and explain the various steps to patients.

This technology employed in CarieScan PRO differs from conventional caries detection methods, which can sometimes lead to errors which allow caries to continue as irreversible and progressive decay leading, in turn, to early and then repeated restorations and spiralling costs.

The choice of clinical action(s) for individual patients will vary, according to their current caries status and risk profile, from preventive to restorative or combinations of both. The use of CarieScan PRO as part of a dental assessment can reveal established hidden dentine lesions (not seen as part of a careful conventional visual examination) which need prompt restorative care. CarieScan PRO may also detect initial lesions where preventive care can stablilse or even reverse the caries process. Most of these hidden and initial lesions would not be clearly evident to the dentist, even if radiographic examination were used.

To consider the CarieScan Caries Management Cycle in a little more detail, set out below are definitions and then key elements of the seven steps in the Cycle: