Oral Health and Dental Management

Paradiagmshift in pediatric dental caries management

International Conference and Exhibition on Dentistry

March 18-20, 2015 Dubai, UAE

Apa Juntavee

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Oral Health Dent Manag

Abstract:

Pediatric dental caries will require a paradigm shift in the way dental professionals approach prevention and management of the disease. Prevention of dental caries has relied upon parental and patient cooperation and significant life style changes that are at best difficult to implement and maintain or at worst ignored. The paradigm shift in pediatric dental caries management demands that clinicians redirect their energies and emphasis from the ?surgical? approach to dental caries to a ?medical? strategy and appropriateness of therapeutic intervention including use of antimicrobials to reduce caries producing-bacteria. This revolution in how dentists approach the problem will require the development of non-surgical strategies as well as biochemical approaches on the essentials of the paradigm shift.