Extension for prevention: is it relevant today? – Discuss Dentistry https://demo.discussdentistry.com/forums/topic/extension-prevention-it-relevant-today/feed/ Wed, 17 Dec 2025 02:42:39 +0000 https://bbpress.org/?v=2.6.12 en-US https://demo.discussdentistry.com/forums/topic/extension-prevention-it-relevant-today/#post-17002 <![CDATA[Re: Extension for prevention: is it relevant today?]]> https://demo.discussdentistry.com/forums/topic/extension-prevention-it-relevant-today/#post-17002 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:27:04 +0000 sushantpatel_doc The concept of minimal intervention dentistry has evolved as a consequence of our increased understanding of the caries process and the development of adhesive restorative materials. It is now recognised that demineralised but noncavitated enamel and dentine can be ‘healed’, and that the surgical approach to the treatment of a caries lesion along with ‘extension for prevention’ as proposed by G V Black is no longer tenable.

        

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