Are there any disbenefits to patients in choosing laparoscopic gastrectomy by an expert in open gastrectomy?
The surgical outcomes were comparable between LADG and ODSG even during the learning period of LADG, and the equivalence of radicality in lymphadenectomy was soon achieved. As long as the surgeon can accept a long operation time, an expert in open gastrectomy should not refrain from performing laparoscopic gastrectomy in well selected patients because of concerns about disbenefits to patients from choosing laparoscopic gastrectomy over open gastrectomy.
Conditioning of caries-affected dentin with EDTA or a combined use with H3PO4 and chlorhexidine may be proposed as these protease inhibitors do not reduce MTBS to caries-affected dentin if compared to conventional H3PO4 treatment.