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What is BlueCheck Caries Detection and Monitoring?

BlueCheck makes it possible – and simple – to detect caries lesions early by making them visible through a convenient procedure using a removable optical detection aid. With earlier diagnosis, non-surgical treatment can be initiated sooner, enamel damage can be prevented and reversed, and outcomes for patients are improved.

It is a paint-on application, taking less than a few minutes, used as a professional chairside aid to identify dental caries lesions in enamel and dentin. It is designed to objectively visualize early stage decay and to monitor lesion activity over time.

What are the latest innovations in caries detection?

Optical aids to enhance dental caries detection and monitoring are new category of products aimed at supporting the new era of dentistry, prevention and minimally invasive dentistry through advanced technology that arms clinicians with visual evidence of early stage disease (incipient or early enamel caries lesions) and lesion activity (such as BlueCheck, Calcivis and Lumicare).

Early detection of disease enables the use of non-invasive treatment options to repair and heal the tooth’s enamel and is a powerful education tool and motivator for the patient to improve oral hygiene and aid acceptance of treatments.

Why is BlueCheck novel?

BlueCheck’s procedure is simple and it gives a fast, direct, sensitive and specific measure of disease status.

It was designed as an optical aid and prevention tool to assist the Clinician in the management of their patient’s by aiding the detection and prevention of dental caries. It enables the visualization of early-stage (incipient / enamel) active caries lesions.

How does BlueCheck work?

BlueCheck is a saline‐based caries detection and monitoring device, a solution containing a novel biomolecule (a protein) linked to a dye.

When applied by painting onto a patient’s teeth, BlueCheck absorbs into the dental tissue where it specifically and reversibly binds to regions of porosity. After a rinse step, unbound blue is washed away with water, leaving visible blue color on the tooth’s surface at the sites of demineralization.

BlueCheck utilizes the natural hydroxyapatite‐binding chemistry of proteins to bind to the dental hydroxyapatite in active caries lesions. A change in color enables clinicians to visualize surface and sub‐surface porosity associated with dental caries in enamel and dentin.

There is no blue color where there is an intact enamel surface (healthy enamel) or an arrested surface layer (arrested or healed lesion) where there is no exposed hydroxyapatite crystal for BlueCheck to bind to.