Dental Caries Management Using the Hall Technique

Abstract

The concept of minimal intervention dentistry (MID) for managing dental caries in children is composed of a set of biological management techniques that aim at increasing access to dental care, decreasing prevalence of untreated dental caries and decreasing the number of patients requiring dental treatment under general anaesthesia. MID, of which the Hall technique is one, aims to alter the environment of carious lesion, preventing its progression by isolating it from the cariogenic biofilm. These contemporary approaches include a range of child-friendly and less-invasive techniques ranging from no carious tissue removal to selective carious tissue removal, preserving as much of the tooth structure as possible.