Resumen de Prevention of dental caries: a review of effective treatments

Claudio Sicca, Elena Bobbio, Natale Quartuccio, Giovanni Nicolò, Angelina Cistaro

• The objective of this study is to review medical and non medical treatments for prevention of caries.

  A comprehensive literature search of the most relevant and updated published studies from 01/01/2002 through December 2015 in PubMed/MEDLINE, Embase and Scopus databases regarding the efficacy of strategies and treatments aiming to prevent the development of caries was performed selecting papers on the basis of the Evidence-based Medicine Criteria.

  We identified thirty systematic reviews on prevention of caries. Analyzing the data the retrieved literature, performance of prevention treatments seems to be high.

  Prevention treatments may have a relevant impact on the avoiding the development of caries planning.