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Scenarios presented to participating dentists. Case scenario: Patient is a 30-year-old woman with no relevant medical history. She has no complaints and is in your office today for a routine visit. She has been attending your practice on a regular basis for the past 6 years. Questions 1 and 2: Please indicate the one number that corresponds to the lesion depth at which you would do a permanent restoration (composite, amalgam, etc.) instead of doing only preventive therapy…1.…if the patient has no dental restorations, no dental caries, and is not missing any teeth…2.…if the patient has 12 teeth with existing dental restorations, heavy plaque and calculus, multiple Class V white-spot lesions, and is not missing any teeth. (Reprinted from Espelid et al., 1997, with permission.)