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brushing, flossing key to checkups ED WITTENbERG | STAFF REPORTER ewittenberg@cjn.org

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here aren’t many secrets to having a successful dental checkup.

Brushing and flossing on a daily basis will usually do the trick, most dentists would likely agree.

But having a good relationship with one’s dentist is also an important factor, said Dr. Dina Fixler of University Heights Dental.

“You want to feel completely comfortable with your dentist,” Fixler said.

“You want somebody who will educate you and not make you feel bad about yourself.

You want to feel educated and informed.

“You want to leave with optimal health, and if there is any Fixler disease present, you want to know how the dental staff will treat that.”

From a dentist’s perspective, Fixler said, a great dental patient is one who

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is open to listening, takes a great interest in his or her dental and overall health and comes in regularly for the appointed visit.

“It’s somebody who listens to your Streem advice and takes the time to refer you to family and friends,” she said. “Most people want to be listened to and taken care of and treated respectfully.”

Dr. Jason Streem, of Periodontal Associates Inc. in Lyndhurst, said most dentists are looking for how well patients care for their oral cavity, which includes the teeth, gums, tongue and the inside lining of the cheeks and lips.

“Typically dentists will know when you’ve brushed and flossed and when you haven’t,” he said. “They’ll know when you’ve been doing your homework at home properly, (such as) brushing

twice a day for two minutes each time, flossing daily and regular semiannual visits to the dentist.”

It may seem like common sense, but it’s surprising how many people don’t brush their teeth or floss on a regular basis, Streem said.

“You would also be surprised by the number of people who brush four to five times a day, but it doesn’t look like they brush at all,” he said. “I joke that they’re not using the right end of the brush, but obviously they need some coaching.

“I specialize in periodontal disease, and the consequences of leaving plaque on your teeth are progression of gum disease and loss of support for your teeth. In today’s dental technology, all of us try to individualize care and apply appropriate maintenance frequency based on the individual’s risk for disease. If they are at a higher risk, they may need more frequent dental visits (than twice a year).”

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hio Dental Association president Dr. Chris Connell of Lyndhurst issued the following statement regarding the proposal to legalize dental therapists in Ohio: “Allowing undertrained individuals to perform irreversible surgical procedures would be detrimental to the oral health of Ohioans and would be an unnecessary distraction from the progress being made in addressing the critical issue of access to dental care in Ohio.

“Accordingly, the Ohio Dental Association strongly opposes Senate Bill 330. This bill proposes inadequate training for such a broad scope of practice that includes irreversible surgical procedures such as the cutting of tooth structure with a highspeed drill, extractions and restorations.

“The General Assembly just passed House Bill 463 a little more than a year ago, which includes some of the nation’s most aggressive access to dental care reforms, including increasing the capacity of the Ohio Dentist Loan Repayment Program, which has already incentivized dozens of dentists to provide care in professional shortage areas, creating the Ohio Dental Hygienist Loan Repayment Program, creating opportunities for expanded function dental assistants to provide preventive dental procedures to Ohio patients and allowing dental hygienists to initiate preventive dental care in underserved settings outside the presence of a dentist. These progressive reforms just became effective, so let’s give them a chance to work.”

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How to make a dentist’s visit pleasant CARLO WOLFF | STAFF REPORTER cwolff@cjn.org

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hen he was a kid, John Heimke’s father told him to buck up and sit straight when he went to the dentist. Heimke didn’t have a chance to be scared, though, he admits, he felt some anxiety.

Heimke, a doctor of dental medicine and president and CEO of Facial Aesthetic Designers in Heimke Rocky River, now suggests that because of advances in technology and improvements in technique, anxiety plays a greatly diminished role.

“These days, I think the offices are much more conducMarsh tive to the general public,” he said.

“They don’t have the smells any more like the old days. When I was a kid, there a always that smell and you knew you were in the dental office.”

“That smell” came from chemicals used in such procedures as root canals.

Over the years, that chemical odor has been reduced, Heimke said.

It’ s not only that behind-the-scenes factor that has changed. The whole environment has – dramatically.

“There’s music, there’s televisions, and dentistry’s so gentle these days,” Heimke said. “There are techniques from the dentist to the hygienist that are very gentle and they’re geared towards patient relaxation, both nonverbal and verbal techniques.”

Steven P. Marsh, a doctor of dental surgery at ClevelandSmiles in Lyndhurst, expanded on Heimke’s musings.

Marsh is almost 64. His father was a dentist. To Marsh, dealing with patients’ fears and anxieties also involves the environment, both physical and psychological.

At his practice, Marsh takes new patients on a tour, bringing them through the reception area where there’s a large screen TV they can tune to the station of their choice. Also on that initial walkthrough is a refreshment area serving healthy drinks and snacks.

Warm-toned hardwood floors and walls painted in browns and greys also soften the experience, he said. And after the initial tour, “we then bring them into my office, which is a round table, and we

sit and get to know each other.”

The idea is to personalize the visit.

“Whether it’s a kid or an adult, we sit down and I say, what’s important to you?

What are your goals in coming? What are your expectations?”

“Part of any relationship is about establishing trust, especially in dentistry,” Marsh said. “I wan to establish that I’m listening to them – it’s not about my expectations – so that immediately they know it’s focused on them. We even show pictures of my family; if it’s a child, I say here are my two daughters. I’m going to treat you the same way I treat my own children. We’re always about treating people as if they were family.”

Once the patient is in the treatment room, which also sports a large flat-screen television, Marsh explains the procedure, and if, say, he’s going to work on a tooth on the upper right of a patient’s jaw, he’ll take a photo to project on screen so the patient can see what he’s about to do. “A picture is worth a thousand words,” he said.

Also part of the procedure: painless injections of anesthetics. “If they’re done correctly,” Marsh said, “they don’t feel the injection, so when you work on them, you cause no pain,” fostering expectations of painlessness.

“If I suggest something is going to hurt, if I think it’s going to pinch a little, I’ll explain that,” he added. “You have to be true to your word. And that goes back to trust.”

Depending on the complexity of the procedure, Marsh calls a patient who has had significant work done the evening following the procedure. In “very complicated” procedures, he’ll give the patient his cell phone number.

So personalization and environment go far to ease anxiety. So does modern dental technology.

“I know that even at specialists I refer to, there have been tremendous advancements in technology, like from phones to iPhones, that kind,” said Heimke. “Same thing in our profession: Odors are a big stimulus, so the elimination of those kinds of things, making impression materials taste better, fluoride taste better,” all help.

“Basically, it involves more peoplecentered engineering to make things more ergonomic and patient-centered,” he added.

“Most people would rather not come to a dentist’s office but prefer to come to a pleasant place, plus the techniques are more efficient at this point. Compared to when we were adults and children, it’s a very straightforward, pleasant interaction.”

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relaxing dental visit may seem like a myth, but when a doctor and their team focus on patient comfort your dental appointment may be something you can look forward to.

Today, dentists can tailor your entire experience from the moment you call the office until after you’re back home from your Mikhli appointment, making it a seamless and comfortable one.

When you call the office to make your appointment, many receptionists are coached to be cheerful, calm and soothing. There can be a lot of anxiety at this point, so ask any questions you may have before you arrive. You should know how long the appointment is expected to take, what your estimated fees will be and what sedation methods are available if you request them. Some sedation requires pre-appointment instructions, so be sure to get all the information needed (more on sedation later). You can even

request to speak to the doctor directly, he or she will be glad to answer any questions the receptionist can’t answer.

The more informed you are about what to expect, the less anxious you will be about the unknown.

Be sure to arrive on time or a bit early for your appointment. Running late puts both you and the office in a more tense mood. Many interior designers help doctors create a warm, cozy feel to the reception room, imagine more living room and less waiting room. Your appointment should start on time. Every once in a while, there are extraordinary circumstances that prolong a previous appointment and your appointment time may be delayed. However, this is the exception to the rule. A comfortable reception area and an on-time appointment go a long way toward a relaxing visit.

Throughout the dental procedure there are a number of ways to relieve anxiety. Intravenous sedation, oral sedation, nitrous oxide, local anesthetic, relaxing music and even aromatherapy are a few. IV sedation will put you to sleep throughout the appointment. It is safer than general sedation, which is

done in a hospital or surgery center. You will be breathing on your own, but you will have almost no recollection of the appointment. This is best for some oral surgery appointments and people with severe anxiety. Oral sedation (Valium or Xanax for example) is very good at relieving mild to moderate anxiety.

Advantages are its low cost and safe administration. Combined with nitrous oxide, oral sedation is very effective for all but the most anxious patients. Most patients that have anxiety do just fine with nitrous oxide (laughing gas) alone.

It reduces anxiety and pain perception and best of all, it clears the body completely right when the appointment is done, so you can drive home yourself.

Many people describe the feeling as if not having a care in the world.

Topical anesthetics and local anesthetics are used to numb the tissues so you don’t feel the injection or the procedure respectively. A lot can be said for music and aromatherapy. Having relaxing sounds and smells around you can take your mind to a different place and make you feel very comfortable. So be sure to bring your favorite music on your iPod. Some offices will even have

noise canceling headphones to help block out sounds of the dental equipment.

Depending on the type of appointment you have had, a myriad of medications can be prescribed to keep you comfortable throughout recovery. Be sure to ask your doctor about which over-the-counter medications you can take as well because there may be some drug interactions.

The most important part of a relaxing dental visit is keeping in contact with your doctor. Your dentist should be available to you at all times to address your concerns. Don’t be reluctant to call. Your dentist wants to help you but can only do so if he or she is informed of your concerns.

Knowing what options are available to you and how to control your environment can lead to all your dental visits being relaxing ones.

Dr. Paul Mikhli is the owner of Beachwood Dental.

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The Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity’s vision, mission and values are based on Parker our tenets of professionalism, fraternalism and commitment to Judaic values.

Alpha Omega embraces the spirit of tikkun olam, or healing the world through charitable endeavors. The fraternity always believed its Jewish identity is what gave it its special purpose with certain Judaic moral and ethical values. While it is a Jewish dental organization, Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity is welcoming to people of all cultural backgrounds.

The principles of Alpha Omega are to provide oral health and wellness, promote social justice and to repair an ailing world.

Examples of Alpha Omega’s outreach to our communities both far and wide include donating our time and talent for the care of Holocaust survivors, building Israeli dental schools and the promotion of oral health and social justice. The Alpha Omega-Henry Schein Cares Holocaust Survivors Oral Health Program was started in January 2015 to help survivors gain access to oral care

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to enhance their quality of life. Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity helped raise millions of dollars to establish dental schools in both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

And money currently raised is used to support dental health, education and research to benefit others.

The Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity has developed The Global Oral Health Initiative as a way to encompass all of its members’ philanthropic activities.

The initiative is composed of many parts, uniting all of its members and encompassing its goals of raising funds for dental health, education, research and care. Alpha Omega members believe in promoting dental health to enhance patients’ quality of life through both positive self-image and self-esteem. The Alpha Omega members have developed clinics and educational centers in developing nations. We also provide care to teens here at home through the “Tomorrow Smiles” program in conjunction with the National Children’s Oral Health Foundation.

The members of Alpha Omega Cleveland dental fraternity are committed to providing the highest-quality dentistry and to helping the Jewish community in Cleveland as well as the larger community of the world. The original spirit of tikkum olam is alive and well in the heart of our fine Cleveland dentists.

Dr. Stephan H. Parker is an orthodontist and the owner of Parker & Streem Orthodontics in Mayfield Village and Twinsburg. He is the president of the Cleveland chapter of Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity.

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Nationwide, today’s announcement includes nearly $156 million in funding to support 420 health centers in 47 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. This funding enables health centers to expand integrated oral health care services and increase the number of patients served.

With these awards from the Health Resources and Services Administration, health centers across the country will increase their oral health service capacity by hiring about 1,600 new dentists, dental hygienists, assistants, aides and technicians to treat nearly 785,000 new patients.

“Oral health is an important part of our overall physical health and well-being,” said Burwell. “The funding we are awarding will reduce barriers to quality dental care for hundreds of thousands of Americans by bringing new oral health providers

to health centers across the country.”

Oral health problems can be a sign of illness elsewhere in the body. Additionally, lack of access to preventive and routine dental care for underserved populations can result in dental conditions requiring more costly emergency dental treatment.

“HRSA will continue to explore ways to further integrate oral health services within primary care settings, and increase awareness of the connection between oral health and overall health,” said HRSA acting administrator Jim Macrae.

Today, nearly 1,400 health centers operate about 9,800 service delivery sites in every U.S. state, D.C., Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Pacific Basin.

These health centers employ more than 170,000 staff who provides care to nearly 23 million patients. In 2014, health centers employed over 3,700 dentists, more than 1,600 dental hygienists, and more than 7,400 dental assistants, technicians and aides. They served about 4.7 million dental patients and provided nearly 12 million oral health visits.

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he Greater Cleveland Dental Society is a local resource for public and professional oral health information and service. Since 1886, its mission has been to support dentists so that they can deliver the best dental care to their patients while also serving their communities.

With a three-tiered membership strucHess ture, GCDS members are also part of the Ohio Dental Association and the American Dental Association, which provide advocacy, education, practice management resources, fellowship and community service. About 160,000 dentists in the United States are members. Cleveland has a very active membership with about 800 dentists.

Advocacy is integral to the organization on a local, state, and national level.

It helps dentists continue to provide patients with the best care in the world.

Above all, this tripartite values the integrity of the dentist-patient relationship. The ODA has a strong history of legislative achievement in Ohio.

Surveys repeatedly have demonstrated advocacy to be among the most important aspects of organized dentistry.

The GCDS believes that every individual deserves access to oral health care. It supports initiatives to better educate the community and bring new opportunities for care to the underserved population of Northeast Ohio. The ODA awards grants to Ohio for programs that help improve access to dental care.

Since 1995, more than $400,000 in grants has been awarded.

Some examples of GCDS providing community service include: • “The Give Kids a Smile” program provides hundreds of Cleveland schoolchildren with free exams and sealants.

More than 225,000 children across the state have received screenings, treatment and/or oral health education since 2003, with dentists donating nearly $12 million in dental services.

• GCDS dentist volunteers have made a three-year commitment to the Cleve-

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land Metropolitan School District for “The Safe Smiles” program, where student athletes are provided with customfitting mouth guards to protect them during athletic activity. The program, funded by GCDS and other donors, is free to players and schools, with all the dentists donating their time for exams and fabrication of the guards. On Aug. 19, 64 football players from Collinwood, East Tech, John Marshall and LincolnWest high schools received custom-fit mouth guards.

• A team of GCDS dentists, along with assistants and hygienists, volunteer to work at two to three dental clinics a year as part of Medworks clinics.

Medworks is a nonprofit that provides the uninsured and underinsured with medical, dental and vision care. At the last clinic, the GCDS team helped more than 160 patients in significant need of dental care.

Additionally, GCDS supports continuing education programs for its members and those new to the dental profession in order to keep providing the very best dental care. Partnering with the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, the GCDS develops and presents about four courses every year for dentists, staff, ancillary professionals and dental educators. Also in collaboration with CWRU, a mentorship program pairs GCDS dentists with dental students so that long-lasting relationships can develop while the students learn from and observe dentists.

The ODA also offers scholarships to the state’s highest caliber of dental students, with more than $500,000 provided since 1995.

As it celebrates its 150th anniversary, the GCDS will continue to promote education and improved access to care for the community, while it advocates for preserving the dental profession’s ability to provide patients with the very best dental care available.

Dr. Roger Hess is a periodontist and co-owner at Lyndhurst-based Periodontal Associates, Inc. He has served as president of the Greater Cleveland Dental Society and chairs numerous committees. Hess also served as president of the Ohio Academy of Periodontists and treasurer of the Ohio Dental Association.

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ith the simple act of brushing her teeth one evening, Paige Alenick was inspired to think about those less fortunate than herself.

“I realized how lucky I was to be brushing my teeth and that you can’t take things for granted,” said Alenick, who was then a 15-year-old high school student at Pascack Hills High School in Montvale, N.J. “And for some people a toothbrush is a luxury item.”

She decided to reach out to Ron Lamb, a dentist who runs the World Dental Relief, an organization that sends dental health professionals on missions around the world to provide care and supplies where little is available.

Alenick learned that there was a tremendous need for toothbrushes.

“You don’t even need toothpaste,” she said. “Just a toothbrush and water gets out most of the bacteria and food particles that cause tooth decay.”

After setting up a website for her project, Donate a Toothbrush, Alenick embarked on a letter-writing campaign to dentists nationwide, toothbrush

manufacturers, friends and family asking for toothbrushes. In the four years since she began Donate a Toothbrush, Alenick has collected more than 153,000 toothbrushes.

In addition to providing the World Dental Relief missions with the toothbrushes, she has also donated them to victims of Hurricane Sandy as well as women’s shelters in New York and New Jersey.

Now a 20year-old junior studying applied psychology at New York University, Alenick was awarded a Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Award in 2014 for her work with Donate a Toothbrush.

She has no plans to stop collecting toothbrushes, either. With her organization recently granted 501(c)3 status, Alenick hopes to raise enough money to be able to ship the toothbrushes overseas directly to the places where they are needed most.

“I was brought up doing a lot of tikkun olam and knowing the value of community service,” she said. “It makes me really happy to help others maintain better oral health. Donating a toothbrush is so small and simple and easy, but can make such a big impact.”

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Dentist’s passion for tea brews business DOuGLAS IMbROGNO | CHARLESTON GAZETTE-MAIL INWOOD, W.Va. (AP) – When he’s not filling cavities, Ken Banks is filling bottles on the side.

Lots and lots and lots of bottles.

About 5,000 a week.

If it were noted that this dentist in Inwood has a crew filling those bottles with a micro-brewed beverage, a first guess might be that he brews craft beer on the side.

But you’d be wrong.

“I’m a big fan of the craft beer industry and how they do things, but I’m also a big tea lover,” Banks said.

Enter Doc’s Tea, a premium microbrewed tea now available in five states, 42 Whole Foods Markets and every Kroger in West Virginia with a health food section.

It has been quite a run for a bright idea Banks had in between filling all those cavities.

The inspiration for concocting a craft tea, sweetened with a protected Chinese fruit once grown centuries ago by Buddhist monks, came five years ago.

“I came up with the idea of trying to make a craft-brewed, healthy tea. I took the philosophy of the craft beer industry, and we just flipped it over into the tea side,” he said.

The “we” is key, since the operation is a family affair, just as dentistry is in the Banks family. The tea operation includes his son and fellow dentist Christopher Banks. Meanwhile, daughter Sarah Langford, a dental hygienist and graduate of the Division of Dental Hygiene at WVU’s dentistry school, handles the business side of Doc’s Teas.

It took Banks several years to work out the kinks, build the brewery and go to market after his initial brainstorm.

Nowadays, Banks works Monday through Thursday peering into people’s mouths. On lunch breaks, evenings and weekends, he’s thinking about the art and craft of tea production in his

3,500-square-foot Doc’s Tea microbrewery. The brewery is located across the parking lot from his dental office in the small Berkeley County town he calls home.

A couple of other employees help run the machines that brew and bottle the tea. Banks, meanwhile, is the mastermind and chief tinkerer behind the Doc’s Tea process and mission.

It all began when Banks began studying the labels of other teas on the market.

“Being a heath professional, I read labels and I read ingredients,” he said.

Most of the teas on the market are made from concentrates, flavored with sugar or corn syrup and concocted using a “heat exchanger” that warms the tea concentrate to sterile levels and extends its shelf life. Banks turned the whole process of making tea into a craft operation, although he had some learning to do.

“That was the hardest thing in the industry. If you go out and start asking questions, nobody wants to talk to you much,” he said. “I decided to build a little micro-brewery for teas. There really wasn’t anybody doing a craftbrewed, micro-brewed tea. The way we do it, we have stainless steel tanks and steep all the product at one time, just like you would almost brew a cup of tea at home.”

The base of the product is organic rooibos tea, a red, caffeine-free tea with high antioxidant qualities. Unlike most teas on the market flavored with concentrates, Doc’s Teas are flavored with actual fruits and seasonings.

The flavors include apple cinnamon; orange ginger; pomegranate acai; lemongrass; island coconut and the two newest flavors introduced a few months ago, elderberry-blueberry and sangria.

In an effort to make the tea healthier, Banks looked for a sugar alternative.

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“I wanted to get away from sugar and the effects that sugar has on us. We consume way too much sugar in our diet,” he said.

He settled on monk fruit, which at the time was new on the market. In 2013, monk fruit earned the FDA’s GRAS approval (Generally Recognized as Safe), shepherded through the approval process by the New Zealand company BioVittoria, a monk fruit champion.

Monk fruit contains antioxidants, which are metabolized differently by the body than natural sugars, according to draxe.com/monk-fruit, which means that despite its sweet taste, monk fruit contains no calories and has no effect on blood sugar.

For Banks, that meant his teas might be attractive to both diabetics and families concerned about how much sugar they and their children were consuming.

“The whole deal is to try to make it as healthy a product as we can, so we want to eliminate as much of the sugar as we can,” Banks said.

Banks has bigger plans for the Doc’s Tea brand, which, depending on where it is sold, can range in price from $1.99

to $2.29 a bottle.

“Probably our biggest competitor, I would say, is Honest Tea,” he said.

“When Coca-Cola bought Honest Tea they dropped the price down to $1.50.

We’re more expensive, but we’re just a little bit different product.”

There are a lot of teas on the market.

But Banks feels he has a product suited for more health-conscious palates and a solid segment of customers in search of a tea both certified organic and kosher.

“The goal that we have is to someday take 20 percent of the market,” he said.

So far, Doc’s Tea has been entirely self-funded to the tune of about $500,000, Banks said.

To grow, the plan is to build the same kind of microbrewery he built in Inwood in different locales throughout the East Coast.

“When somebody places an order, we’ll brew the product. We’ll have it fresh for them,” Banks said.

Life is a whole lot busier now that he has two doctors’ hats to wear.

“In the evenings, I walk from the dental office over to the tea building and work over there. I’m back and forth all day long it seems like.”

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The dental experts at the Academy for Sports Dentistry, American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, American Association of Orthodontists, and the American Dental Association urge parents, caregivers,

athletes and coaches to be proactive about staying safe by using a mouth guard.

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Sealants can help close door against decay, disease CHICAGO – A systematic review and updated clinical practice guideline from the American Dental Association and American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry show dental sealants are a powerful and effective therapy in the fight against childhood dental decay and disease.

The systematic review, “Sealants for Preventing and Arresting Pit-and-Fissure Occlusal Caries in Primary and Permanent Molars,” in conjunction with “Evidencebased Clinical Practice Guideline for the Use of Pit-andFissure Sealants,” are available in the August issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association, as well as the July/August issue of AAPD’s Pediatric Dentistry Journal.

Although tooth decay is largely preventable, it remains the most common chronic disease of children age 6 to 11 years (21 percent), and adolescents age 12 to 19 years (58 percent), based on data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey report of 201112. The systematic literature review evaluated the use and effectiveness of dental sealants – a therapy that has been around for more than five decades – as a preventive strategy for reducing dental disease in children, analyzing outcomes such as caries incidence, sealant retention and possible adverse effects.

“Sealants are a proven and effective therapy for preventing cavities in children and teens. Oral disease can greatly impact one’s concentration and self-esteem and contributes to more than 51 million hours of missed school each year,” said lead author Dr. Timothy Wright.

“The joint report reaffirms that sealants should be a routine part of cavity prevention, as children with sealants are up to 80 percent less prone to cavities compared to those without them.”

Dental sealants are applied to pits and fissures of posterior teeth, known as molars, and act as a barrier to keep the decay causing bacteria from the tooth. Sealants not only prevent new decay but can also stop existing initial decay from developing into a cavity.

“The new guideline gives clear direction for dentists to best use sealants to improve the oral health of their patients,” Wright said.

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