[Indications for and frequency of intraoral radiographs].

Radiographs are essential in dental practice today. Due to the exposure of patients to X-rays every radiograph has to be justified. The advantages and disadvantages of risks and diagnostic rewards have to be weighed against one another whenever X-ray imaging is considered.

[Trends in DMF in children and adolescents from 1990 to 2009. Research in a changing context].

Since 1987, research has very frequently been carried out in the Netherlands on the oral health of children and adolescents, so-called 'TJZ research'. For an analysis of the trends in caries experience DMF in children and adolescents in the Netherlands, the results of the TJZ research from 1990, 1996, 2005 and 2011 were used. The changing social context and the fact that the age groups studied were different in the different years of survey were taken into account.

A three-year randomized controlled trial in 6-year-old children on caries-preventive strategies in a general dental practice in the Netherlands.

A parallel-randomized controlled trial on caries-preventive strategies was conducted in a general dental practice with a mixed socioeconomic background patient population. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that, compared to regular care consisting of check-ups twice a year with professional fluoride applications and pit and fissure sealants in all permanent molars, a larger caries-preventive effect can be achieved by following a non-operative caries treatment and prevention (NOCTP) strategy or by following, in addition to regular care, an increased number of professional topical fluoride applications (IPFA). A total of 230 children (6.

[Websites of dental practices evaluated].

In 2013, a dental practice without a website is almost unthinkable. Using a sample of309 dentists drawn from the list of members of the Dutch Dental Association in 2012, a study was carried out to find out whether the dental practice of the general dental practitioner had a website. The content of each website was subsequently inventoried using a questionnaire.