Dental and Oral Health

Biography

Biography: Apa Juntavee

Abstract

Revolutions in pediatric dental caries management will require a paradigm shift in the way professions approach prevention and management of the disease. Prevention of dental caries has relied mainly upon parental and patient cooperation and significant life style changes that are at best difficult to implement and maintain or at worst ignored. The paradigm shift in pediatric dental caries management demands that clinicians redirect their energies and emphasis from the "surgical" approach to dental caries to a "medical" strategy and therapeutic intervention including use of antimicrobials to reduce caries producing-bacteria and innovative materials for re-mineralization. The revolutions will require the development of non-surgical strategies as well as biochemical approaches on the essentials of the paradigm shift. This presentation will provide interesting perspectives on unconventional approaches to dental caries management and novel ideas to incorporate into pediatric practices for new approaches to dental caries management.