Justine Kolker, DDS, MS, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Operative Dentistry at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry, where she teaches freshman and junior students and provides care in the faculty practice. Kolker has mentored dental students and graduate students in research on topics such as early caries clinical detection and root caries classification using the International Caries Detection and Assessment System.
Clinicians can increase long-term clinical success by incorporating the principles of minimally invasive dentistry into caries risk assessment and restorative treatment.