Communication Is Key In Caries Management

By Man Wai Ng, DDS, MPH, Victoria Grady, RDH, BSDH

Dental caries is a transmissible bacterial infection¹ but also a chronic biobehavioral disease.² Modern caries management calls for customized risk-based disease prevention and management strategies.^3,4 Surgical (restorative) treatment of carious lesions alone does not address the underlying disease.³ Without a change in an individual’s etiologic factors, new and recurrent caries will likely occur.

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