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Perspectives in Dental Caries

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Cold atmospheric plasmas for caries prophylaxis and for caries therapy are still subject of intensive biomedical basic research. From today’s perspective, plasma medicine provides promising potential in the field of cariology as an adjunctive measure for the disinfection of the dentine and for the improvement of the durability of composite fillings.

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  1. Clinic of Operative Dentistry, Periodontology and Preventive Dentistry, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg, Germany

    Stefan Rupf

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  1. University Medicine Greifswald, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Plastic Surgery, Greifswald, Germany

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  2. Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP Greifswald) and University Medicine Greifswald Institute for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Greifswald, Germany

    Thomas von Woedtke

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    Klaus-Dieter Weltmann

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Rupf, S. (2018). Perspectives in Dental Caries. In: Metelmann, HR., von Woedtke, T., Weltmann, KD. (eds) Comprehensive Clinical Plasma Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67627-2_19

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