Atraumatic Restorative Treatment: Posture and Positions

• The atraumatic restorative treatment (ART) is a procedure based on removing carious tooth tissues using hand instruments alone and restoring the cavity with an adhesive restorative material.
• Another terminology used for ART is alternate restorative treatment.
• Usually, carious lesions are left untreated in children of underprivileged communities of developing and underdeveloped countries mainly because of financial problems and lack of awareness.
• Over the last two to three decades, althoug…

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