Costs and effectiveness of treatment alternatives for proximal caries lesions.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Invasive therapy of proximal caries lesions initiates a cascade of re-treatment cycles with increasing loss of dental hard tissue. Non- and micro-invasive treatment aim at delaying this cascade and may thus reduce both the health and economic burden of such lesions. This study compared the costs and effectiveness of alternative treatments of proximal caries lesions.

Methods

A Markov-process model was used to simulate the events following the treatment of a proximal posterior lesion (E2/D1) in a 20-year-old patient in Germany. We compared three interventions (non-invasive; micro-invasive using resin infiltration; invasive using composite restoration). We calculated the risk of complications of initial and possible follow-up treatments and modelled time-dependent no

SUBMITTER: Schwendicke F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3903601 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature