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Why can’t traditional methods like the dental probe (pick) find these pit and valley cavities?

April 26, 2017Cavities dental methods pick pit probe traditional Valley

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Why can’t traditional methods like the dental probe (pick) find these pit and valley cavities?

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This type of decay can make diagnosis with traditional methods difficult because the outer tooth surface often appears to be intact and the probe may be too large to detect the cavity.