title: Preventive and minimal intervention dentistry in the undergraduate curriculum.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This paper illustrates the preventive and minimal intervention dentistry (MI) concepts with examples from cariology, but the philosophy is much wider and should have an impact across all dental specialties and the entire undergraduate curriculum. Collaboration between researchers, educators and clinical dentists is very important for the continuing improvement of dentistry.
  
  
  METHODS
  This paper considers the potential of preventive dentistry and "MI Dentistry" and then outlines a modern core cariology curriculum recently developed for use across Europe. Related initiatives from the ICDAS Foundation's ICCMS™ (International Caries Classification and Management System), the International Association for Dental Research and the Alliance for a Cavity Free Future (ACFF) are also outlined.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Preventive and minimal intervention dentistry are important topics, both for the present and increasingly for the future.
authors: Dental Health Services & Research Unit, Centre for Clinical Innovations, University of Dundee, The Mackenzie Building, Kirsty Semple Way, Dundee DD2 4BF, Scotland, UK. n.b.pitts@cpse.dundee.ac.uk
authors: Nigel
authors: N
authors: Pitts
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D032921:Consensus; D003479:Curriculum; D003657:Decision Making; D057087:Dental Atraumatic Restorative Treatment / Q000379:methods; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000145:classification / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy; D003733:Dental Caries Susceptibility; D003814:Dentistry, Operative / Q000193:education*; D018450:Disease Progression; D004497:Education, Dental; D005060:Europe; D055094:Evidence-Based Dentistry / Q000193:education; D006801:Humans; D011313:Preventive Dentistry / Q000193:education*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013039:Specialties, Dental / Q000193:education