BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Last month, the American Medical Association (AMA) approved a new category III CPT code for the application of silver diamine fluoride (SDF) by medical teams to arrest dental ...

In a study of nearly 3,000 schoolchildren, silver diamine fluoride -- a liquid that is brushed onto the surface of teeth to prevent cavities or keep them from worsening -- was as effective against ...

Silver diamine fluoride (SDF) effectively arrests caries in primary teeth, according to a review by researchers in China and Japan and published online in JDR Clinical & Translational Research. The ...

Silver diamine fluoride (SDF) arrests dental caries by reducing the demineralization process and inhibiting the growth of multispecies cariogenic biofilms, according to a new study in Annals of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Michelle Crouch, Kaiser Health News Denver dental hygienist Jennifer Geiselhofer often cleans the teeth of senior patients who can’t easily get to a ...

“I can’t drill. I can’t pull teeth,” said Geiselhofer, whose mobile clinic is called Dental at Your Door. “I’d recommend they see a dentist, but that was often out of the question because of mobility ...

The retention of an uninterrupted black surface on open carious lesions 6 months after the application of silver fluoride followed by stannous fluoride was associated with a statistically significant ...