PREVENTION OF DENTAL CARIES IN CARIES-ACTIVE INDIVIDUALS BY GASEOUS OZONE

The Prevention of Dental Caries

Fluoride and dental caries prevention in children.

1. Low-income children experience more dental caries and more complications of caries, such as dental abscesses. Beginning fluoride toothpaste and fluoride varnish during the first year of life can reduce low-income children’s risk of getting dental caries. 2. Pediatricians and other primary care clinicians for children have an important role to play in implementing a dental caries primary prev...

[Epidemiology and prevention of dental caries].

Dental caries is a chronic disease with low mortality. It is, though, a very common disease, responsible for much suffering, and is one of the most expensive diseases to treat. Within the EU, the cost of dental treatment, most related to dental caries, in 2011 was estimated to be 79 billion euro (1). Dental caries affects all ages; both primary and permanent dentitions. In many European countri...

Prevention of Dental Caries-Measures beyond Fluoride

Dental caries is one of the most common preventable childhood disease; people are susceptible to this ailment throughout the lifetime [1]. Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) conducted between 1999 and 2004 revealed that 28 percent of children ranging from 2 to 5 years of age had one or more primary tooth affected by dental caries and 51 percent of children h...

Dental Caries – A Strategic approach for prevention

Dental caries is a chronic, bio-behavioural disease that extends throughout the life span of human beings. Prevention of dental caries includes measures to prevent the occurrence of disease, such as risk factor reduction, but also to arrest the progress of disease and reduce consequences of the disease once it is established. Preventive measures like fluoride therapy and pit and fissure sealant...