ABSTRACT
Dental caries is a highly prevalent chronic public health disease. The focus of modern dentistry has gradually changed from ‘the cure to the prevention strategies’. Nowadays dental caries is treated as a process rather than curing the lesion only. The role of demineralization and remineralization has been better understood. There is a recent outburst of alternate non – fluoride remineralizing agents which may serve as alternative and also adjunct for preventing, arresting or even reversing dental caries. This paper reviews the various non-fluoride remineralizing agents that may hold promising results in prevention of dental caries in future. A search of articles from “PubMed” and “Medline” and databases like Google and Google scholar, ScienceDirect with the keywords dental caries, nonfluoride technologies, remineralization and demineralization was conducted, out of a total 110 articles, 72 articles have been used in the present review.
KEYWORDS:
Dental caries, Remineralization, Prevention, Nonfluoride technologies