Instituting an interdisciplinary evidence-based risk assessment model for dental caries management improved oral health care in the pediatric primary care setting, according to research presented ...

Children with a high-risk for dental caries may be effectively screened for early presence of non-cavitated lesions utilizing telehealth technologies. [1, 2] Children can be screened with an ...

A team from West Virginia University sent questionnaires in the fall of 2009 to all 58 U.S. dental schools. Among the 42 responding schools, 90% reported having a caries risk assessment (CRA) training ...

The other methods tested in the study were the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry's caries risk assessment tool (CAT), CAT minus socioeconomic status, and CAT minus socioeconomic status plus MS ...

Conclusion: Tobacco use was clearly associated with increased caries increment during adolescence. Hence, this factor is relevant to consider in the clinical caries risk assessment of the ...

Several large-scale studies have validated CAMBRA’s accuracy in identifying who will likely develop caries. In one study, 69 percent of patients rated as high risk and 88 percent of those rated as ...

Killeen P, Casamassimo P, Frese W, et al. Caries risk assessment in the medical office identifying common risk factors toward a more effective screening tool. ePoster presented at: 2016 meeting of ...

Journal reference: Irusa, K.F., et al. (2022) A comparison of the caries risk between patients who use vapes or electronic cigarettes and those who do not.

The final data set (N = 9,351,848 patient examinations), 86.8% had a caries prevention procedure completed at the examination visit.

Among 120 patients seen at a pediatric primary care community health clinic during a 60 calendar day period, 90% of patients were stratified as at high risk for tooth decay using the Caries ...