Innovations in Preventive Dentistry

The line between preventing and treating has been blurring in caries, periodontology and orthodontics, and it is from that shift that the work coordinated by Christian H. Splieth departs. It covers the three levels of prevention — avoiding disease, arresting initial lesions and halting the progression of established pathology — and translates the evidence into concrete chairside decisions. Sugar and diet, interdental hygiene and the debate around floss, early childhood caries, prebiotics and probiotics, self-assembling peptides, non-restorative cavity control and prevention in the older or medically compromised patient are all addressed. Of interest to the practice team, to teachers and to those who design oral health policy.