Rubber Dam Usage in Dentistry: A Review

Triveni Mohan Nalawade

doi:10.19080/adoh.2017.06.555689

Abstract

Rubber Dam Usage in Dentistry: A Review

Highlights

Rubber Dam was introduced almost 150 years back, and is unreplacable and is considered as a standard of care [1]
Rubber Dam usage has been low whether it be Endodontics [6,7,10,11] Pediatric Dentistry [12], Restorative dentistry [3,4] or general dentistry[8,9]
Koch et al [7] conducted a survey in Sweden and found that more than 90% of general dentists used rubber dam for isolation

Summary

Introduction

Rubber Dam was introduced almost 150 years back, and is unreplacable and is considered as a standard of care [1]. It is still the most ideal means of isolation till date [2] It has many advantages as it improves visibility, prevents contamination from saliva, reflects the soft tissues, improves longetivity of the restoration[3,4], prevents trauma to soft tissues and prevents ingestion of clamps, crowns, endodontic files [5,6,7]. In spite of these numerous advantages, it is observed from many questionnaire studies that rubber dam usage is not regular [8,9,10]. A study in Saudi Arabia highlighted the usage to be less from Dentists in a few countries and the reason being lack of under graduate training and facilities too [7]

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