Understanding Dental Caries

I.The carious enamel.- Understanding Dental Caries-from Pathogenesisto Prevention and Therapy.- Enamel softening (dental erosion).- Enamel Etching.-The early enamelcarious lesion.- Dental biofilm in health and disease.- New caries diagnosticmethods.- From the initial carious lesion of enamel to the early development ofcaries within coronal dentin.- II.The carious dentin.- The dentino-enameljunction.- Superficial and deep carious lesions.-Cervical scleroticdentin:Resin bonding.- The pulp reaction beneath the carious lesion.-III.Cervical erosions.- Ultrastructureof the enamel-cementum junction.- Cervical erosions and restoration ofcervical erosions.- Cervical regeneration.- IV.Fluoride.- Dental fluorosis.- V.Invasive and non-invasive therapies.- Brushing, tooth pastes, salivation.- Resininfiltration Treatment for Caries Lesions.- Minimal-invasive therapy-Keepingtreated teeth functional for life.- Invasive and non-invasive therapies<.

Michel Goldberg is Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris V (University René Descartes) and a member of the INSERM UMR-S1124. He has served on many committees for INSERM and for the International Association for Dental Research (IADR). Dr. Goldberg is a Past President of the IADR Mineralized Tissue Group and the Pulp Biology Group. He has been a member of the IADR Continental European Division since 1973 and has served on their board in numerous capacities, through to President and Past President. During his career, Dr. Goldberg has sat on scientific advisory boards for many international dental conferences. He was the Scientific President for the Annual Congress of the Association Dentaire Francaise (ADF) in 1992 and 2000 and presided over the annual ADF congress in 2003. He is a widely published author and co-author, with more than 200 scientific articles to his name as well as 19 books, including most recently the Springer book Dental Pulp: Biology, Pathology, and Regenerative Therapies (ISBN 978-3-642-55160-4). He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Dental Research and a member of the board of advisory editors for numerous publications. Dr. Goldberg is a recipient of the Chevalier Ordre National du Mérite; he was also awarded the Distinguished Service Award from the IADR in 2003 and the IADR's Distinguished Scientist Award for Pulp Biology Research in 2006.