Dentine hypersensitivity is a well known and very common problem among our patients with which dentists are confronted in practice. However, if one considers that the number of older patients potentially able to keep most of their teeth because of improved prophylaxis and care will continue to grow in the coming years, it can be assumed that the problem of dentine hypersensitivity will tend to grow rather than decline. In the future therefore, we will be confronted much more with the unpleasant pain symptoms of dentine hypersensitivity than is currently the case. A number of non-invasive and also invasive treatment options are available to suit the aetiology of the dentine hypersensitivity. The first part of the presentation on the one hand will give an overview of current, mainly non-invasive therapeutic options, and on the other hand it aims to comment on them and evaluate them by reference to the current literature. The second part will present a totally new therapeutic approach. Based on preliminary personal experience and the available results from the relevant literature, the aim is to present and discuss a first assessment of this innovative technology, which is based on arginin and calcium carbonate. |
