[Prophylactic filling and treatment of initial stages of caries]

The paper presents new concepts of caries treatment, stressing that the condition of its acceptance is a high level of health consciousness of the patient, warranting a close cooperation with the dentists for controlling this widespread disease. The author thinks that the most important methods of treatment available in world stomatology may be divided in three groups: I--prophylactic, with filling preventively the sites predisposed to the development of caries, II--treatment of initial stages of caries, III--treatment of advanced caries with loss of hard tissues of teeth. The necessity is stressed of more intense, more widespread and more systematic than presently raising of the health consciousness of our population, for detection and treatment of initial--reversible stages of caries, prophylactic filling of fissures and sulci in the freshly erupted teeth, depending on economic possibilities.