Evidence-based systemic antibiotic prescription in periodontal and dental implant procedures: A mini-review.

Purpose: To evaluate and summarize the available scientific evidence regarding antibiotic prescription protocols in periodontal and dental implant procedures.

Methods: A bibliographic search was conducted in PubMed, ScienceDirect, Scielo, Cochrane Library, EBSCOhost and Google Scholar up to February 2023. Manual and electronic searches were conducted, including publications in English.

An interdisciplinary intervention program to prevent early childhood caries in the Dominican Republic.

Objective: The principal aim of this randomized clinical trial (RCT) was to test the effectiveness in the prevention of Early Childhood Caries (ECC) through an educational intervention program with the use of a printed guide for pediatricians and parents both designed by pediatric dentists.

Materials And Methods: After ethical approval, the first step was to design the educational guides, which were based on the information obtained from a focus group with pediatricians ( = 3), phone interviews with mothers to toddlers' ( = 7), and the best evidence available about children's oral health. For the RCT, 309 parents with their 10-12 months old children were randomly allocated to either the intervention or the control group.

How do dental practitioners, educators and students diagnose and manage caries risk and caries lesions? A COM-B analysis.

Objective: The International Caries Classification and Management System (ICCMS™), a comprehensive, evidence-informed, best clinical practice system, comprises a 4D cycle: 1D-Determine risk; 2D-Detect and assess lesions; 3D-Decide on a personalized care plan; and 4D-Do preventive and tooth-preserving care. The aim of this study was to establish how Colombian dental practitioners, educators and students diagnose and manage caries risk and caries lesions using the COM-B model and the ICCMS™ system.

Methods: A total of 1094 participants (practitioners: n = 277; educators: n = 212; students: n = 605) completed a previously validated 79-item questionnaire which explores, based on the COM-B model, the practitioners' self-reported caries diagnosis and management behaviours.

ICCMS™ root caries lesions stages and their underlying depth towards the pulp: an in vitro study with histologic evaluation.

Objective: To examine the relationship between the ICCMS™ (International Caries Classification and Managing System) features of root caries lesions and the underlying depth of the lesion towards the pulp. In order to control for bias, the study followed the tailored document for risk of bias assessment (RoB-tool) recently published. A pilot study showed that the outline of the pulp was much clearer on horizontal compared to vertical sections through the lesions (p = 0.

CariesCare International adapted for the pandemic in children: Caries OUT multicentre single-group interventional study protocol.

Background: Comprehensive caries care has shown effectiveness in controlling caries progression and improving health outcomes by controlling caries risk, preventing initial-caries lesions progression, and patient satisfaction. To date, the caries-progression control effectiveness of the patient-centred risk-based CariesCare International (CCI) system, derived from ICCMS™ for the practice (2019), remains unproven. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic a previously planned multi-centre RCT shifted to this "Caries OUT" study, aiming to assess in a single-intervention group in children, the caries-control effectiveness of CCI adapted for the pandemic with non-aerosols generating procedures (non-AGP) and reducing in-office time.

Dental caries experience and its impact on quality of life in Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Robust epidemiological data allow for logical interventions taken in the interest of public health. Dental caries is a major public health problem driven by increased sugar consumption and various biological, behavioral, and psychosocial factors, and is known to strongly affect an individual's quality of life. This study aims to critically review epidemiological data on the prevalence of dental caries in Latin American and Caribbean countries (LACC) and its impact on the oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) of the population.

Cariology consensus for undergraduates at dental schools in the Caribbean region.

Aim: To obtain a consensus on the domains of cariology for undergraduates in dental schools in the Caribbean.

Materials And Methods: Dental school deans from the Dominican Republic (DR) and Puerto Rico (PR) were invited to participate. Afterwards, 24 cariology faculty members from the dental schools in the DR received a 40-h workshop on the current understanding of dental caries.

The impact of a national caries strategy in Greenland 10 years after implementation. A failure or a success?

Aims 1) to describe the dental health goals and the single financial goal defined in 2008 with a new national caries strategy in Greenland (CSG) and the progress made during the subsequent 10-year period; 2) to describe the CSG initiatives; and 3) to report caries outcome data for 3-year-old children as well as 9-year-old children in 2012 and 2018; for 6-year-old children as well as 12-year-old children in 2015 and 2018 and for 15-year-old children in 2018, and to compare the data with the baseline data from 2008. Only 6 of the 20 dental health goals were close to being or were achieved over the 10-year period. The total cost of running PDHS-G increased by 4% from 2008 to 2018.

Rubber Dam Isolation Survey (RDIS) for adhesive restorative treatments.

Introduction: Rubber dam isolation is considered as an essential component of modern adhesive dentistry. However, dental students do not always use it due to several barriers they face on their clinical practice. The aim of this study was to design and validate a questionnaire based on the COM-B model to measure students' implementation of rubber dam isolation in restorative treatments with adhesive materials.

Understanding dentists' caries management: The COM-B ICCMS™ questionnaire.

Objective: To design and validate a questionnaire to measure caries management based on the Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation Behavior model (COM-B) and the International Caries Classification and Management System (ICCMS™).

Methods: A combination of Cariology and Psychology experts developed a 79-item pool that measured the COM-B components according to the ICCMS™ caries management recommended behaviours. After face and content validation and a pilot study, two samples of Colombian dentists participated: clinicians (n = 277) and clinical-practice educators (n = 212).

Cross-Cultural Validation of the Scale of Oral Health-Related Outcomes for 5-Year-Old-Children with a Low-Income Sample from the Dominican Republic.

Aims And Objectives: To conduct a thorough psychometric assessment and validation of a Spanish-adapted version of the Scale of Oral Health-Related Outcomes for 5-Year-Old-Children (SOHO-5).

Materials And Methods: The sample consisted of 69 children aged 6 and 7 years attending a public school from a low-income community in the Dominican Republic. Outcomes consisted of SOHO-5 test scores and caries lesion severity scores, with the latter measured according to the International Caries Detection and Assessment System criteria.