CARIES PREVENTION - BASED ON EVIDENCE - OR AN ACT OF FAITH

Authors
KAY EJ
Citation
Ej. Kay, CARIES PREVENTION - BASED ON EVIDENCE - OR AN ACT OF FAITH, British Dental Journal, 185(9), 1998, pp. 432-433
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Dentistry,Oral Surgery & Medicine
Journal title
British Dental Journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
00070610
Volume
185
Issue
9
Year of publication
1998
Pages
432 - 433
Database
ISI
SICI code
0007-0610(1998)185:9<432:CP-BOE>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
The era of evidence-based healthcare requires that dentists' actions a re supported by scientific proof of effectiveness. In this paper, evid ence regarding the impact of strategies for caries prevention is deriv ed from epidemiology and from a systematic review of research papers.