[Non-restorative cavity treatment: from guidelines to the practice].

The new KIMO guidelines ‘Oral Health Care for Children’ approach caries as a behavioural related disease and unequivocally assign priority to causal caries treatment, emphasising lifestyle and behavioural changes. The 5-step concept of non-restorative caries treatment (NRCT) is recommended as treatment of choice for cavitated dentine lesions in primary dentition. Communicative aspects of NRCT are supported by limited technical interventions, for the purpose of effective oral care.

Prevalence of molar-incisor-hypomineralisation among children participating in the Dutch National Epidemiological Survey (2003).

Aims: This was to determine the prevalence of Molar-Incisor-Hypomineralisation (MIH) among children participating in the Dutch National Epidemiological Survey of 2003 and to compare the prevalence data with that found in the previous survey of 1999 when MIH was found in 9.7% of 11-year-old Dutch children.

Methods: The survey took place in the same four cities as the previous survey in 1999.

Molar incisor hypomineralization: review and prevalence data from the study of primary school children in Kaunas/Lithuania.

Aims: These were to determine the prevalence of MIH in a group of primary school children in Kaunas, Lithuania and to compare the prevalence of MIH in Lithuania with the prevalence in other countries using published data.

Methods: First permanent molars and all permanent incisors were examined in 1277 children, aged 7 to 9 years and having at least one erupted permanent molar, for demarcated opacities, post-eruptive enamel breakdown, atypical restorations and extractions due to MIH, according to the criteria, provided by the EAPD experts. Examinations were performed by two calibrated observers (k=0.