AIM The purpose of this review is to explore how to increase utilization of dental sealants to reach the national 50% sealant objective as stated in the Healthy People 2010 document. BACKGROUND Dental decay is the most common chronic childhood disease. A simple, cost-effective preventive measure to manage this disease is through sealant application. REVIEW Although dental sealants are effec...

Sealants have become an important vehicle for preventing pit and fissure caries. 1 Dentists have increased their use of sealants, 2-4 yet the percentage of children who receive this service is still rather small. 5, 6 This study explores the charges for dental sealants and onesurface, permanent posterior restorations for each state over a three-year period. This information will be useful for c...

BACKGROUND Pit and fissure sealants (sealants) are widely used as a non-operative preventive method in public dental health in Finland. Most children under 19 years of age attend the community-organized dental health services free of charge. The aims of this study were to find out to what extent sealants were applied, what the attitudes of dental professionals towards sealant application were, ...

The retention rate of sealants placed by dental auxiliaries has not been studied extensively. This study recorded and compiled the retention rate of sealants placed by Air Force dental technicians over a two-year period. The technicians, who were equivalent to dental assistants, were trained to place the sealants without assistance using the Vac-Ejector (Whaledent International, New York, NY) s...

A retrospective patient record analysis was conducted to study the cost-effectiveness of dental sealants placed under routine, unrestricted practice condition in a fluoridated community. The 26 dentists who provided care at the clinic over the period of the study used their own clinical judgement to determine sealant placement or alternative treatment. Dental services for 275 patients at a chil...

Health technology A school-based dental sealant programme for low socioeconomic status (low-SES) children was considered. This clinical preventive programme included oral hygiene instructions, weekly sodium fluoride rinses, dental sealants (either for repairing lost sealants, or for sealing newly erupted teeth), and referrals to the students family dentists or the Peekskill Area Health Center (...

Objective. The purpose of the study was to assess the knowledge, value, opinion, and practice regarding use of dental sealants among private dental practitioners in Bathinda City, Punjab, India. Materials and Methods. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among all private dental practitioners in Bathinda City, Punjab. A self-administered structured questionnaire consisting of 28 items was use...

Background: For the prevention of dental caries, fissure sealants application is recommended if pits and fissures are very deep and narrow, creating a physical barrier for the plaque's accumulation, in these specific anatomical areas of the tooth. Aim: This review article about fissure sealant aims to address the main properties, indications, advantages and limitations of fissure sealants that ...

Dental personnel, other than dentists, must be trained to place sealants to provide this much needed service cost-effectively to the numbers of children who require it. A program to train Air Force dental technicians (equivalent to dental assistants) to place sealants with assistance using the Vac-Ejector Moisture Control System (Whaledent International, New York, NY) for isolation was reported...