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От себя: таково нынешнее заключение официальной медицины:

Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2004;3:CD004153.

Ozone therapy for the treatment of dental caries.

Rickard G, Richardson R, Johnson T, McColl D, Hooper L.

Old Sandstone Dental Practice, The Chine, Dorking, Surrey, UK, RH4 1QT.

REVIEWERS' CONCLUSIONS: Given the high risk of bias in the available studies and lack of consistency between different outcome measures, there is no reliable evidence that application of ozone gas to the surface of decayed teeth stops or reverses the decay process. There is a fundamental need for more evidence of appropriate rigour and quality before the use of ozone can be accepted into mainstream primary dental care or can be considered a viable alternative to current methods for the management and treatment of dental caries.

(Нет достоверного эвиденса о его пользе, требуются доп. исследования.)

Сами авторы статей приводят иную статистику, напр.:

Gerodontology. 2003 Dec;20(2):106-14.

Clinical reversal of root caries using ozone, double-blind, randomised, controlled 18-month trial.

Holmes J.

UKSmiles Dental Practice, Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of an ozone delivery system, combined with the daily use of a remineralising patient kit, on the clinical severity of non-cavitated leathery primary root carious lesions (PRCL's), in an older population group. DESIGN: A total of 89 subjects, (age range 60-82, mean +/- SD, 70.8 +/- 6 years), each with two leathery PRCL's, were recruited. The two lesions in each subject were randomly assigned for treatment with ozone or air, in a double-blind design, in a general dental practice. Subjects were recalled at three, six, 12 and 18 months. Lesions were clinically recorded at each visit as soft, leathery or hard, scored with a validated root caries severity index. RESULTS: There were no observed adverse events...
At 18 months, 87 (100%) of ozone-treated PRCL's had arrested, whilst in the control group, 32 lesions (37%) of the PRCL's had worsened from leathery to soft (p<0.01), 54 (62%) PRCL's remained leathery and only one of the control PRCL's had reversed (p<0.01). CONCLUSIONS: Leathery non-cavitated primary root caries can be arrested non-operatively with ozone and remineralising products. This treatment regime is an effective alternative to conventional "drilling and filling".

(Среди пожилых пациентов к 18-му месяцу все леченные озоном кариесные процессы были остановлены, тогда как без озона в 37% отмечалась прогрессия процесса.)