The Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme (SDCEP) has recently published a third edition of its Prevention and Management of Dental Caries in Children guidance.
The guidance is presented within a dedicated website (www.childcaries.sdcep.org.uk) with a downloadable summary ‘Guidance in Brief’ also provided.
The guidance aims to support dental teams to improve and maintain the oral health of their younger patients through the delivery of preventive care and, where necessary, effective management of dental caries. This third edition is widely endorsed by national and international organisations as a source of reliable, high quality, professional advice that promotes the provision of safe and effective oral health care for patients.
Updating for the third edition of the guidance focused on specific aspects where new evidence or other recent developments were identified, and many parts of the guidance remain unchanged. Updates include amendment of the recommendation about preventive fissure sealants and wider application of vital pulp therapy in permanent teeth, with a new key recommendation about pulpotomy for treatment of pulpitis with irreversible symptoms.
Further details about the development of this guidance and the main changes in this edition are available at www.childcaries.sdcep.org.uk.