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Risk-Based Oral Health Care and Prevention
Risk-Based Oral Health Care and Prevention is a 12-module microlearning series designed to build foundational knowledge and clinical decision-making skills in caries management. Through short, case-based modules, learners develop an understanding of caries as a disease process, caries risk assessment, and risk-based prevention and care planning.
Track 1: Foundations
Caries as a Disease Process
What is dental caries? This module introduces dental caries as a dynamic disease process rather than a single clinical event. Learners explore the balance between demineralization and remineralization and how caries develops over time.
Caries Risk Assessment
What influences caries risk? This module introduces the key factors used in caries risk assessment, including disease indicators, risk factors, and protective factors. Learners examine how biological, behavioral, and environmental factors influence future disease risk.
Risk Categories and Meaning
How is caries risk categorized? This module explores how assessment findings are synthesized into low-, moderate-, and high-caries-risk categories. Learners develop an understanding of how risk categories guide clinical communication and support risk-based care decisions.
Track 2: Clinical Decision-Making
Using Risk to Guide Treatment Decisions
Placeholder – This session introduces dental caries as a chronic, dynamic, biofilm-mediated disease rather than a static lesion. Learners will examine how microbial metabolism, repeated pH fluctuations.
Non-Operative vs Operative Care Decisions
Placeholder – This session introduces dental caries as a chronic, dynamic, biofilm-mediated disease rather than a static lesion. Learners will examine how microbial metabolism, repeated pH fluctuations.
Remineralization Strategies in Practice
Placeholder – This session introduces dental caries as a chronic, dynamic, biofilm-mediated disease rather than a static lesion. Learners will examine how microbial metabolism, repeated pH fluctuations.
Fluoride Decision-Making by Risk Level
Placeholder – This session introduces dental caries as a chronic, dynamic, biofilm-mediated disease rather than a static lesion. Learners will examine how microbial metabolism, repeated pH fluctuations.
Targeted Preventive Strategies
Placeholder – This session introduces dental caries as a chronic, dynamic, biofilm-mediated disease rather than a static lesion. Learners will examine how microbial metabolism, repeated pH fluctuations.
Track 3: Patient Management and Application
Applying Levels of Prevention
Placeholder – This session introduces dental caries as a chronic, dynamic, biofilm-mediated disease rather than a static lesion. Learners will examine how microbial metabolism, repeated pH fluctuations.
Behavioral and Social Risk Factors
Placeholder – This session introduces dental caries as a chronic, dynamic, biofilm-mediated disease rather than a static lesion. Learners will examine how microbial metabolism, repeated pH fluctuations.
Monitoring and Recall Decisions
Placeholder – This session introduces dental caries as a chronic, dynamic, biofilm-mediated disease rather than a static lesion. Learners will examine how microbial metabolism, repeated pH fluctuations.
Case-Based Clinical Decision Making
Placeholder – This session introduces dental caries as a chronic, dynamic, biofilm-mediated disease rather than a static lesion. Learners will examine how microbial metabolism, repeated pH fluctuations.
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