DOI: 10.36347/sjds.2024.v11i04.001

Pages: 40-46

Interest in the use of silver diamine fluoride (SDF) has been growing. SDF has been used as an alternative treatment for caries prevention and arrest. In 2014, SDF was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for dentinal sensitivity. A CDT code adopted by FDA in 2016 is D1354—interim caries arresting medicament application: “Conservative treatment of an active, non-symptomatic carious lesion by topical application of a caries arresting or inhibiting medicament and without mechanical removal of sound tooth structure”.