ISP good clinical practice recommendations for the management of dentin hypersensitivity

Vishakha Grover, Ashish Kumar, Ashish Jain, Anirban Chatterjee, Harpreet Singh Grover, Nymphea Pandit, Anurag Satpathy, Baiju Radhamoni Madhavan Pillai, Anil Melath, Deepa Dhruvakumar, Roshani Thakur, Nilesh V Joshi, Neeraj Deshpande, Himanshu Dadlani, A Archana Meenakshi, KP Ashok, K Vinathi Reddy, Meenu Taneja Bhasin, Sanjeev Kumar Salaria, Abhishek Verma, Rajesh Prabhakar Gaikwad, Hemant Darekar, Ramesh Amirisetty, Mangesh Phadnaik, Vaibhav Karemore, Ravindranath Dhulipalla, Dhawal Mody, Tushar Shri Rao, Swarna Chakarpani, V RanganathJournal of Indian Society of Periodontology 2022 26(4):307-333 Dentin hypersensitivity (DH) is a rising concern in clinical dentistry that causes pain and discomfort and negatively affects the quality of life of patients. Indian Society of Periodontology conducted a nationwide survey, involving 3000 dentists in December 2020, which revealed significant knowledge gaps regarding DH, viz., under-diagnosis, incorrect differential diagnosis, and treatment strategies/recommendations for the management of DH patients in daily clinical practice. The current paper has been envisioned and conceptualized to update the practicing Indian dentists regarding the so-called enigma of dentistry “Dentin Hypersensitivity,” based on the best available contemporary evidence. An expert panel was constituted comprising 30 subject experts from across the country, which after extensive literature review and group discussions formulated these ...
Source: Journal of Indian Society of Periodontology - Category: Dentistry Authors: Source Type: research