Art ( a traumatic Restorative Treatmment) is a promissing approach to tooth restoration, which relies on the use of hand instruments for removol of carious tissues and the subsequent filling of the cleaned cavity and adjacent fissures with a glass ionomer cement of high viscosity. Its lack of dependence upon electricity and expensive dental equiment has caused it to be endorsed by the World Health organisation ( who) as particicularly appropriate for public oral health care services in developing countries suach as those of Africa.
Art has been demostrated to have significant advantages where dental restoration work is concerned. however, because of infrastructual factors beyond the control of dental personnel it has not caused patients in South Africa and other African countries to visit clinics until, in many case, a painful tooth is beyond restoration.
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