Public health intervention over four decades for the children in the Australian Capital Territory: Have we reached the point of diminishing returns?

CONCLUSION: This suggests that rather than toiling to eliminate dental decay completely, the focus might usefully be reoriented towards those small known pockets of society with persistent higher levels of disease and looking for new ways to address these difficult clusters, while simultaneously advancing the understanding that a small residual level of decay will always exist in society. PMID: 28573837 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Community Dental Health - Category: Dentistry Tags: Community Dent Health Source Type: research