Silver Diamine Fluoride

I don’t know how I heard of silver diamine fluoride (SDF) in the first place, but it has blown my mind ever since I have found it. You may have heard of silver nitrate — the stuff we put on ulcers to burn them up. This is also what some dentists were using to arrest caries.

Now there is something new (U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved in 2014 and the first product on the market in