On September 15, 2022, the American Medical Association (AMA) approved a new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code for silver diamine fluoride (SDF) application by healthcare professionals to ...

Fewer than 5% of well-child visits for privately insured young children included a recommended dental fluoride varnish application, despite mandatory insurance coverage for this service, according to ...

Topically applying 38% silver diamine fluoride (SDF) may better prevent erosion in enamel and dentin than stannous chloride-containing fluoride (SNF). The in vitro study was published on April 24 in ...

Regular use of fluoride varnish can prevent caries in primary teeth. Advantages or disadvantages regarding further patient-relevant outcomes remain unclear due to a lack of data. Whereas caries in ...

Children in Hawaii have the highest prevalence of tooth decay in the country. That’s according to a 2016 Department of Health study. Local dentists are making efforts to change those statistics.

The practice says there is a rising number of tooth decay in children due to a lack of access to an NHS dentist with the ...

What are the major sources of fluoride? Fluoride is added to tap water in many countries and can also be found in several naturally occurring foods. A fluoride concentration of 0.7 to 1.2 ppm (parts ...

Whereas caries in adults and adolescents is declining, studies in children under the age of 3 have shown that caries in this age group has hardly decreased: On average, about 14% of all 3-year-olds in ...