Dental car!es lesions are pathologic conditions peculiar to the teeth. Dental caries involvement of the dentin may be from direct attach when the tissue is exposed to the oral environment. Grossly, lesions display a color different from that of the sound tissue while microscopic observation reveal loss of mineral matter, often with zone ocurring within lesions. In order to integrate the facts now know concerning the actual development of a dentinal caries, let us visualize some literatures. Of the approaches the dentinal caries cleaning considered in this article only the reduction of dentinal caries removed seems to have been satisfactionally established on the basis of the histopathologic considerations and clinical observation.