Teeth for life: oral disease prevention in research and practice.
All branches of dentistry have benefited in recent years from the rapid advances made in scientific research. Caries has been reduced in industrialized countries thanks to the combined efforts of epidemiologists, chemists, experimental and clinical scientists, identifying fluoride and refining fissure sealants. Genetic engineering may be pointing the way towards a possible caries vaccine as well as enhancing regimens against periodontal diseases. In addition research has provided advances in preventing and treating soft-tissue pathologies. Over the next 20 years a research and action programme aims to eliminate toothlessness in the USA.
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National Institute of Dental Research, Dept. of Health and Human Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001428:Bacterial Vaccines; D002648:Child; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006299:Health Services for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D010510:Periodontal Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D011313:Preventive Dentistry / Q000639:trends*; D012106:Research; D014080:Tooth Exfoliation / Q000517:prevention & control; D014481:United States
D001428:Bacterial Vaccines