[Modern methods of caries treatment]

Methods of treatment of advanced caries with loss of hard dental tissues are reviewed discerning especially six such methods: 1) adhesive filling using composites, 2) filling with composites resistant to mechanical trauma, 3) filling made of conventional composites, and polyacrylate cements, 4) conventional filling with silicon cements, 5) conventional filling with silver amalgam, 6) filling with inserts. The author points out that as yet there is not plastic material better than amalgam for filling defects of class I, II and V where aesthetic requirements are not important.