Helminen S.K.J. Long-term change in dental prevention and check-up intervals in public dental service in Helsinki, Finland. Department of Oral Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2003. 88 pp. ISBN 952-91-5822-X. The aim of the present study was to track changes in dental state from 1976 to 1999, in Helsinki, Finland, and to evaluate dental prevention measures and the success with wh...

Dental caries is a common infectious disease affecting young children living in low-income families in the United States. Efficacious, safe, feasible and cost-effective caries prevention methods for these children are essential. Several studies have shown the efficacy of fluoride varnish and xylitol to improve the oral health of children. The efficiency of caries prevention programs including t...

Although the use of fluorides has been successful in reducing dental caries, the need remains to develop and evaluate new approaches and promising products for caries prevention. Comprehensive caries-prevention protocols should encompass fluoride and other agents affecting the de-/remineralization balance but also antimicrobial strategies. Different from the traditional restorative approach, th...

BACKGROUND Dental caries is becoming an ever-growing challenge as the number of elders maintaining their teeth increases. There is a need for low-cost, effective preventive interventions to retain natural teeth for elders. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to evaluate evidence based interventions for dentate elders, specifically the adjunct therapies of fluoride, chlorhexidine, xylitol...

UNLABELLED Nonfluoride caries-prevention agents have been developed and promoted to the dental profession in the recent past. The oral healthcare professional is encouraged to use evidence-based information when making clinical decisions. Recently, a systematic review was completed by a panel of experts convened by the American Dental Association Council on Scientific Affairs and recommendation...

INTRODUCTION Dental caries is a diet-associated disease which continues to be a serious health problem in most industrialized and developing countries. Strategies to maximize caries prevention should automatically consider the use of sugar substitutes. It is important that public health authorities are made cognizant of the availability of new polyol-type sugar substitutes. REVIEW SUMMARY Cli...

Kuhn proposed in his Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) that the theoretical framework of a science (paradigm) determines how each generation of researchers construes a causal sequence. Paradigm change is infrequent and revolutionary; thereafter previous knowledge and ideas become partially redundant. This paper discusses two paradigms central to cariology. The first concerns the most s...

Methods: Twenty–one residential homes were surveyed. Three hundred and six healthy elders having at least 5 teeth with exposed sound root surfaces were randomly allocated into 1 of 4 groups: individualized oral hygiene instruction (OHI), OHI and applications of 1% chlorhexidine varnish every 3 months, OHI and applications of 5% sodium fluoride varnish every 3 months and OHI and annual applicati...

Caries is one of the most common diseases in human body, and its incidence extremely high both children adults. also a chronic developmental disease, sustainable development will not only seriously endanger oral health, but health whole body. At present, some progress has been made research on pathogenesis prevention caries, there are still many problems to be solved. This paper discusses etiol...