Eligibility criteria
carious lesions, pulpal disease, dentinal caries, mental disabilities, allergy, abnormal parafunctional, pain
SYSTEMIC ILLNESS, ALLERGY, HYPOPLASIA
Children aged 7–13 years, with carious lesions on the occlusal surface in any one of the first permanent molars with ICDAS score ranging from 3–5 (Ismail et al. The exclusion criteria were as follows: permanent molars with deep dentinal caries or presence of any pulpal disease with or without pain, permanent molars with developmental defects such as hypomineralisation or hypoplasia, participants with a history of allergy to any material being used in the study, a history of abnormal parafunctional activity, and participants with mental disabilities and systemic illness.