Prof. Dr. Ayşe Işıl Orhan

Prevention of ECC: Preventive Applications     
Dental caries, which is accepted as the most common childhood disease in the world;  is a chronic and infectious disease that adversely affects general health, quality of life, growth and development. Children who develop caries lesions in their primary teeth are three times more likely to have caries in their permanent teeth.
In preventive medicine practices, the main aim is to prevent diseases before they occur, to protect the health of individuals. Starting from the period when parents plan to have a baby, taking the right steps for the baby's oral health makes it possible to protect healthy dental tissues, improving oral health in children and to become healthy adults in the future.
In this presentation, information on nutrition, plaque control, caries preventive applications, the use of caries preventive agents according to current guidelines and current materials