CARIES INHIBITION STUDY BY LOCAL APPLICATIONS OF SOME MEDICAMENTS : A CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

Abstract

Ammoniacal silver nitrate solution, silver fluoride solution and Gottlieb's solution were applied on tooth surfaces to measure the caries inhibiting abilities. Three times during a year's course, each agent was applied on the right upper and lower first molars, and the first molars of left side were served as controls. D. M. F. tooth number was checked each time before the first application and four months after the last application. Caries inhibitions were observed in fourty two percent by silver impregnation method, in fourty one percent by silver fluoride method, while no inhibition was detected by Gottlieb method.