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November 21, 2022
“The AMA just created a transformative mechanism for payors to support medical teams to control tooth decay with a breakthrough medicine,” said Jeremy Horst Keeper, DDS, PhD, director of clinical innovation at CareQuest Institute Partners and one of the authors of the code. “SDF is carefully brushed on to cavities and repeated periodically, stopping a great majority of them. It also prevents new cavities more efficiently than anything we’ve ever seen before. Why wouldn’t medical teams use SDF to take control of the most prevalent disease? They can, they do, and now there is a code for payors to compensate them for it.”
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