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Article: Managing Early Childhood Caries with Atraumatic Restorative Treatment and Topical Silver and Fluoride Agents
Title | Managing Early Childhood Caries with Atraumatic Restorative Treatment and Topical Silver and Fluoride Agents |
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Keywords | Child Dental caries Dentine Primary teeth Fluoride(s) Therapeutics Silver compounds Minimally invasive dentistry |
Issue Date | 2017 |
Publisher | Molecular Diversity Preservation International. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.mdpi.org/ijerph |
Citation | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2017, v. 14 n. 10, article no. 1204 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Early childhood caries (ECC) is a significant global health problem affecting millions of preschool children worldwide. In general, preschool children from families with 20% of the lowest family incomes suffered about 80% of the ECC. Most, if not all, surveys indicated that the great majority of ECC was left untreated. Untreated caries progresses into the dental pulp, causing pain and infection. It can spread systemically, affecting a child's growth, development and general health. Fundamental caries management is based on the conventional restorative approach. Because preschool children are too young to cope with lengthy dental treatment, they often receive dental treatment under general anaesthesia from a specialist dentist. However, treatment under general anaesthesia poses a life-threatening risk to young children. Moreover, there are few dentists in rural areas, where ECC is prevalent. Hence, conventional dental care is unaffordable, inaccessible or unavailable in many communities. However, studies showed that the atraumatic restorative treatment had a very good success rate in treating dentine caries in young children. Silver diamine fluoride is considered safe and effective in arresting dentine caries in primary teeth. The aim of this paper is to review and discuss updated evidence of these alternative approaches in order to manage cavitated ECC. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/249577 |
ISSN | 2021 Impact Factor: 4.614 2020 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.747 |
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dc.contributor.author | Duangthip, D | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chen, KJ | - |
dc.contributor.author | Gao, SS | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lo, ECM | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chu, CH | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-11-21T03:04:09Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-11-21T03:04:09Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2017, v. 14 n. 10, article no. 1204 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1660-4601 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/249577 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Early childhood caries (ECC) is a significant global health problem affecting millions of preschool children worldwide. In general, preschool children from families with 20% of the lowest family incomes suffered about 80% of the ECC. Most, if not all, surveys indicated that the great majority of ECC was left untreated. Untreated caries progresses into the dental pulp, causing pain and infection. It can spread systemically, affecting a child's growth, development and general health. Fundamental caries management is based on the conventional restorative approach. Because preschool children are too young to cope with lengthy dental treatment, they often receive dental treatment under general anaesthesia from a specialist dentist. However, treatment under general anaesthesia poses a life-threatening risk to young children. Moreover, there are few dentists in rural areas, where ECC is prevalent. Hence, conventional dental care is unaffordable, inaccessible or unavailable in many communities. However, studies showed that the atraumatic restorative treatment had a very good success rate in treating dentine caries in young children. Silver diamine fluoride is considered safe and effective in arresting dentine caries in primary teeth. The aim of this paper is to review and discuss updated evidence of these alternative approaches in order to manage cavitated ECC. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Molecular Diversity Preservation International. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.mdpi.org/ijerph | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | Child | - |
dc.subject | Dental caries | - |
dc.subject | Dentine | - |
dc.subject | Primary teeth | - |
dc.subject | Fluoride(s) | - |
dc.subject | Therapeutics | - |
dc.subject | Silver compounds | - |
dc.subject | Minimally invasive dentistry | - |
dc.title | Managing Early Childhood Caries with Atraumatic Restorative Treatment and Topical Silver and Fluoride Agents | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Duangthip, D: dduang@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Chen, KJ: kjchen@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Gao, SS: sherryg@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Lo, ECM: edward-lo@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Chu, CH: chchu@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Duangthip, D=rp02457 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Chen, KJ=rp02663 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Gao, SS=rp02662 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Lo, ECM=rp00015 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Chu, CH=rp00022 | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/ijerph14101204 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 28994739 | - |
dc.identifier.pmcid | PMC5664705 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85031411172 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 282836 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 14 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 10 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | article no. 1204 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | article no. 1204 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000414763200113 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Switzerland | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1660-4601 | - |