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This course includes lectures, patient-based exercises, class discussion, and debates.  The objectives of this course are to critically review and discuss the current scientific evidence on the diagnosis on incipient carious lesions, non-cavitated pits and fissures, cavitated carious lesions, recurrent carious lesions, and root caries.  By the end of the course, students should be able to discuss the current methods of caries diagnosis and their limitations; evaluate new systems for diagnosis of incipient and non-cavitated carious lesions; analyze and critique dental caries management protocols; understand the concepts of clinical decision making, evidence-based dental practice, and develop decision trees for management of different types of carious lesions; and identify areas for further research.

updated 10/19/2010