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The impact of recent changes in the epidemiology of dental caries on guidelines for the use of dental sealants: clinical perspectives.

Abstract：

:When used properly, sealants result in improved dental health. However, their use on all occlusal tooth surfaces for preventive reasons will result in wasted dental care resources. To optimize the preventive effects of sealants, a delivery model should be initiated that uses specially trained dental hygienists or dental assistants who visit schools to explain oral health-related issues, conduct visual inspections of clinical oral health status, identify patients at risk for dental caries, and generate a central database for program operation. When a high-risk patient is identified, auxiliary personnel could place sealants and recall the patient for a new visual inspection six months later. If caries is suspected at that time, the patient could be sent to a dentist for additional treatment. To offset the negative effects caused by overutilization of sealants, their usage should be divided into two categories. First, a preventive option should be available, and the fee for use of sealants in this option should be lower compared to the fees used today. By using specially trained auxiliary personnel to place such sealants, the fee could be kept reasonably low. Second, a sealant treatments option that targets treatments of incipient lesions also should be available. The fee for such a treatment should be close to that of the traditional occlusal restoration, and the application should be by a dentist. By using such a fee structure based on market forces, one would expect that sealant usage would increase among patients suffering from early carious lesions, while the usage of preventive sealants would remain the same or decline. This utilization pattern for dental sealants would contribute to improved efficiency of sealant usage in the treatment of dental caries, particularly at a time when caries frequency is declining. The improved efficiency could release dental care resources that should be used to target risk groups with improved education in dental health. By using such a strategy, the long-term effect would be not only the placement of fewer restorations, but an improvement in dental health among adolescents and adults.

journal_name

J Public Health Dent

journal_title

Journal of public health dentistry

authors

Söderholm KJ

doi

10.1111/j.1752-7325.1995.tb02384.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1995-01-01 00:00:00

pages

302-11

issue

5 Spec No

eissn

0022-4006

issn

1752-7325

journal_volume

pub_type

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The impact of recent changes in the epidemiology of dental caries on guidelines for the use of dental sealants: clinical perspectives.