Aleksandar Dimkov
 

Introduction: As a result of developments in technology, materials, and illness knowledge, paediatric dentistry has experienced major changes. When dealing with children, comfort, speed, safety, and conservative therapies are paramount. Of course, this also applies to adults, but getting youngsters started with dental appointments and making the experience stress-free for both patients and parents is extremely vital. The introduction and use of new technology caused a paradigm change in the practice of dentistry. This has been marked by the development of new and superior restorative materials that allow us to remove less tooth structure. We have now achieved the therapeutic goals discovered in giving more minimally invasive dentistry. Early dental diagnosis has become increasingly important in recent years. Early detection of dental caries has grown in relevance in recent years as conservative dentistry has remained at the forefront. The dentist should emphasize early identification of dental caries and the least invasive treatment alternatives, especially in paediatric patients. Traditional caries detection methods frequently miss early enamel lesions that have not developed into cavitation. As a result, several innovative strategies for detecting cavities early have been developed.
Aim: The purpose of the current literature is to provide broad information regarding new restorative materials and caries detection technologies and summarize recent advances in paediatric dentistry.
Conclusion: This overview highlighted a huge variety of current equipment that is either now used or can be utilized in dental diagnostics. Some of these devices are rather pricey and take up a lot of room. Technology evolves so quickly that it is impossible to stay up. As a result, possibly the best answer for each pedodontist or pedodontics clinic is to select the equipment with the greatest cost benefit.

 Key words: tooth restorative materials, imaging technology, laser, fluorescence, spectroscopy, sound waves, Cone Beam Computed Tomography

Address of correspondence:
Professor Aleksandar Dimkov DMD, PhD
“Ss. Cyril And Methodius”, Faculty Of Dental Medicine Skopje,
Goce Delčeva 9, Blvd North Macedonia
adimkov@stomfak.ukim.edu.mk

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