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Respondents reported year of qualification, current restorative thresholds, and postgraduate training and preventive care practices on deep caries management over the past 5\u2009years.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The year of qualification influenced the type of cavity preparation dental therapists are likely to perform. Participants who had attended a course in minimum intervention cariology and operative dentistry were more likely to adhere to minimally invasive protocols. While early\u2010stage caries treatment showed consistency, the clinical approach became more varied for deeper lesions.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Dental therapists in the UK show variation in their restorative thresholds. Clinical treatment decisions become more varied when dealing with deeper carious lesions, especially when the lesion encroaches the inner third of dentine. Restorative thresholds and choice of treatment protocols appear to be positively affected by the number of years post qualification and recent attendance on a caries management course.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/idh.70131","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,15]],"date-time":"2026-07-15T04:47:36Z","timestamp":1784090856000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Restorative Thresholds of Dental Therapists: A UK Perspective"],"prefix":"10.1111","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0006-0887-2542","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nicola","family":"Stockford","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW)\/Addysg a Gwella Iechyd Cymru (AaGIC), Ty Dysgu, Cefn Coed  Cardiff UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0091-7348","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Avijit","family":"Banerjee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Restorative Dentistry, Research Centre of Oral Clinical Translational Sciences\/Conservative &amp; MI Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral &amp; Craniofacial Sciences King's College London, Guy's Dental Hospital  London UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_13_2_1","first-page":"43","article-title":"MI Caries Management \u2013 An Overview","volume":"21","author":"Banerjee A.","year":"2012","journal-title":"Annals of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_3_1","volume-title":"Global Oral Health Status Report: Towards Universal Health Coverage for Oral Health by 2030","author":"World Health Organization","year":"2022"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.5005\/jp\u2010journals\u201010005\u20102644"},{"issue":"3","key":"e_1_2_13_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e159","DOI":"10.1016\/S2468-2667(19)30019-2","article-title":"Measuring Population Ageing: An Analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017","volume":"4","author":"Chang A. 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