AUTHOR(S): Dr. Suchetha GM, Dr. Archana Krishna Murthy, Dr. Shilpashree KB, Dr. Divya BM and Dr. Antara Shome

ABSTRACT:Dental caries preventive approaches must be integrated based on knowledge and understanding of the predicted risk. Caries risk assessment is a concept that is firmly grounded on the well-known fact that dental caries is a preventable disease. It denotes the process of establishing the probability for an individual patient to develop new caries lesions over the near future. In caries risk assessment methods, patients who are at risk are identified, factors that are directly or indirectly responsible for the disease are eliminated/reduced, and measures are taken to prevent future disease. This review article discusses the various methods used in caries risk assessment. The articles were searched in Pubmed and Google scholar database, a total of 18 articles were reviewed from 2006 to 2020. Caries risk assessment is the critical component of dental caries management and should be considered a standard of care and included as part of the dental examination. Although Caries Risk Assessment utilization rates are low among general dentists, with continued development of supporting evidence and guidelines Caries Risk Assessment will increasingly become the accepted standard of care.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22271/oral.2022.v8.i2g.1546

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