The Treatment Goals

Treat the patient to control the infection.

 

This involves:

• Use of appearance and texture of cavitated and noncaviated lesions (see clinical exam), which surfaces are involved and clinical assessment..
• Treatment with chlorhexidine (a specific bactericidal rinse) for 2-4 weeks to control the infection.
• Monitoring after treatment.

Heal the incipient lesion (nonrestorative procedure).

Arrest caries and restore cavitated lesions (restorative procedure).

Now let us look at the treatment procedures for each type of risk classification.