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Dental Caries: Disease Burden Versus Its Prevention

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Worldwide, dental caries poses huge disease burden to human health, and it is especially true for less-developed countries. Related strategies have been discussed and advocated by WHO to incorporate its preventive measures into general prevention programs for noncommunicable diseases. Large-scale epidemiological investigations have yielded alarming data on caries prevalence in China. There are a huge number of patients in need of dental care. Then in later sections of this chapter, caries-preventive strategies and methods are further provided.

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Xiao, H. (2016). Dental Caries: Disease Burden Versus Its Prevention. In: Xuedong, Z. (eds) Dental Caries. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47450-1_6

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