Well-baby dental visits provide early prevention and detection of dental disease for the infant and preschool child. A survey of the dental records of 379 preschool children from the ages of 6 months to 4.5 years were reviewed from a population of military family dependents. The caries activity of this population was found to be 8.9%, with a dft of 0.25. Nursing caries was clinically definable ...

BACKGROUND The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that topical fluoride application may prevent early childhood caries in high-risk populations. Yet, there are few published descriptions of caries prevention curricula for primary care residents. METHODS In 2003, the New Hampshire-Dartmouth Family Practice Residency hired a dentist and a hygienist to develop and implement a did...

With the development of new dental restorative materials, advances in adhesive dentistry, better understanding of the caries process, the tooth’s potential for remineralization and changes in caries prevalence and progression; the management of dental caries has evolved from G.V. Black’s “extension for prevention” to “minimally invasive.” This concept includes early detection of lesions; indivi...

An oral infectious disease, dental caries, is caused by the cariogenic streptococci Streptococcus mutans. The expected preventive efficiency for prophylactics against dental caries is not yet completely observed. Nisin, a bacteriocin, has been demonstrated to be microbicidal against S. mutans, and liposome-encapsulated nisin improves preventive features that may be exploited for human oral heal...

The prevalence of dental caries in developing countries like India is increasing to an alarming level in contrast to developed countries where it has decreased because of variety of preventive measures at the community and individual level. There is no State or Centre funded programs for prevention of dental diseases in India. The present review enlists the targeted prevention of dental caries ...

The global burden of oral disease and dental caries has been steadily rising even as improved and novel tools for reconstructing the damaged dentition are rapidly evolving. The increased burden of the dental caries worldwide may be attributed to the fact that dentists and dental schools still typically focus on treatment rather than prevention of the disease. The World Health Organization throu...

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...

Because of the rapid development dental science and modern technologies, World Health Organization (WHO) included caries as one six diseases, prevention which is main aspect nowadays. Initial few diseases that can accompany a person throughout their life, starting from early childhood. Early childhood an international health problem in both developing industrial countries. The most important hi...

OBJECTIVES Early childhood caries is a highly destructive dental disease which is compounded by the need for young children to be treated under general anaesthesia. In Australia, there are long waiting periods for treatment at public hospitals. In this paper, we examined the costs and patient outcomes of a prevention programme for early childhood caries to assess its value for government servic...

Varsio S. Caries-preventive treatment approaches for child and youth at two extremes of dental health in Helsinki, Finland. Department of Oral Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland, 1999. 65 pp. ISBN 952-91-1150-9. This study determined the prevalence and distribution of dental caries among young populations during the last two decades in Helsinki, Finland, and evaluated dentists’ cari...