WHY SAFE CARIES PREPARATION WITH M.A.C?
- Reduce the risk of accidental pulp exposure
- Minimize the need for unnecessary RCT
- Remove only infected tissue while preserving healthy tooth structure
- Work with more confidence and less stress during deep caries management
- Improve precision in difficult and deep cavities
- Increase patient comfort during caries excavation
- Achieve cleaner surfaces for better adhesion
- Improve the longevity and predictability of composite restorations
- Create minimally invasive preparations with beautiful pulp preservation outcomes
5) To eliminate a risk of accidental pulp exposure
6) To reduce a pain or discomfort to your patient during caries preparation
7) To get better adhesion
8) To increase the longevity of composite filling
9) To get beautiful pictures of unexposed pulp :)
Composite shield
Guided Preparation
Difficult Access
Selective Preparation
Risk of exposure
Easy Protocol
Safe Preparation with M.A.C
Stress-free and with high accuracy.
The Story
I still remember my first doubts about deep caries preparation as a dental student.
“How much caries should I remove?”
“What if I expose the pulp?”
At that time, I believed that experience alone would eventually eliminate those doubts.
The reality was different.
The more experienced I became, the more I realized how unpredictable deep caries management could be. Every decision mattered. Every movement could change the outcome.
I kept searching for a more objective, safer and more predictable way to manage deep carious lesions.
Questions kept coming back:
- Can we remove only infected tissue while preserving healthy structure?
- How precise can caries excavation really be?
- Can we reduce the risk of pulp exposure?
- Is it possible to work with more confidence and less stress?
Everything changed when I started experimenting with air abrasion using a standard prophylaxis sandblaster.
The first time I observed the results under the microscope, I was amazed by the level of precision.
Step by step, I refined the workflow, added new protocols and developed what later became:
Safe Preparation with M.A.C.
Incredible texture
Find the different shapes made of sclerotic, reactive ,secondary dentin under the caries.
Safe Preparation even with aggressive form of caries
Reduce a risk of pulp exposure especially in the situation when the caries has similar color to the dentine.
Get close but never expose.
Stress free protocol even with deep , close to the pulp caries cavities.
Safe Preparation with M.A.C
11 Episodes
- Episode 1 Introduction to M.A.C (5:08)
- Episode 2 Conservative or Radical (5:52)
- Episode 3 caries preparation in literature (6:49)
- Episode 4 is there objective way of caries preparation (1:30)
- Episode 5 Let's talk about money (9:10)
- Episode 6 The power of prohy (6:25)
- Episode 7 easy caries preparation (8:36)
- Episode 8 the role of caries detector (8:24)
- Episode 9 prophy versus abrasive (18:34)
- Episode 10 the circle of choice (2:55)
- Episode 11 Limitation of MAC (8:25)