Pre-Meeting Workshop:

Building and Sharing the Global Future for Caries Education and Practice

The Global Burden of Disease Study showed that untreated caries in adults is the most common health burden (with untreated caries in children ranked sixth). Global efforts must be redoubled to improve the situation for this largely preventable disease. This Workshop will cover six areas:

1. Learning from the outcomes of the two Dental Policy Labs convened by the Alliance for a Cavity Free Future and King’s College London. Key issues include: preparing the future dental and health workforce for delivering effective caries prevention and tooth preserving caries care; providing appropriate care for both those already in the dental system and those outside it, paying for health in dentistry and understanding the nature of future dental practice
2. Understanding CariesCare International - the “Practice version” of ICCMS™ - launched by the ICDAS Foundation in June 2018. This implements the essential elements of good practice across the “4Ds”:
   • Determine caries risk,
   • Detect and assess lesions;
   • Decide on a patient-appropriate care plan and
   • Do preventive and tooth maintaining CariesCare.
3. Enabling caries education, practice and research using e-Health and cloud-based integrated health records using the Colombian National Consensus as a Pilot exercise
4. Building dental team and inter-professional capability in caries care by improving communication between dental and other health / community teams in training and beyond.
5. Taking forward a specific version of the International Cariology Curriculum adapted for young children using the key elements of the IAPD Bangkok Declaration for Early Childhood Caries as a framework.
6. Expanding the Global Collaboratory for Caries Management to share and further develop standardised resources to improve caries education, caries care and health.