ANTICARIOGENIC AGENTS ALTERNATIVE TO FLUORIDES

This book depicts the use of various anticariogenic agents used instead of fluorides. Dental caries is a complex disease process that afflicts a large population of the world, regardless of gender, age and ethnicity, although it does tend to affect more with a low socioeconomic status to a greater extent. New and emerging methods have been and are in the process of being developed. These hold great promise of preventing and reversing caries, especially in the one-fifth of the population that accounts for two thirds of the caries experience. However, despite the dramatic reduction in dental caries rates over the past half century and the concurrent increase in emphasis on preventive dentistry, caries still affects a major percentage of the population. Thus, control of caries is of major importance in dentistry and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.