It is suggested that it makes sense for dentists providing care for individual patients to take account of caries risk (as assessed by presentation of active, non-cavitated lesions) when deciding how to allocate time and effort of themselves and their staff. However, there is a question as to how realistic it is to ask the dental team to provide a full diagnostic assessment and all the preventive treatment required for a patient for the payment provided by 1 UDA. It is to be hoped that one or more of the Steele pilots will come up with a practical solution for controlling caries in NHS practice. © 2010 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.
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Page, J., Weld, J. A., & Kidd, E. A. M. (2010, May 22). Caries control in health service practice. British Dental Journal. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2010.447
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