engleski

Reply to Letter to the Editor regarding our Paper: How to Intervene in the Caries Process: Early Childhood Caries – A Systematic Review

The paper was critically revised in the reviewing process and the key messages confirmed by the opinions of 24 experts in “How to Intervene in the Caries Process in Children: A Joint ORCA and EFCD Expert Delphi Consensus Statement” [Splieth et al., 2020].Regarding the type of article (systematic review), like the Cochrane Foundation, we faced the problem that the available publications were not designed primarily to make systematic reviews feasible. Thus, the design of the paper, i.e., starting with a systematic review, was due to the work being part of a requested review consortium for a consensus paper of the European Organisation for Caries Research and the European Federation of Conservative Dentistry regarding caries management. The aim was to provide the most recent literature in the field to be able to provide the expert panel with a beneficial, clinically relevant, scientific background. The search strategy was systematic, but due to the nature of the available literature, studies other than randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were included. In these studies, deviations from a “pure” systematic review for RCTs only were necessary and can be traced in the paper. After screening and reading the retrieved papers, we found different levels of evidence regarding different methods for the management of early childhood caries (e.g., several systematic reviews regarding nonoperative caries management [NOCM] with silver diamine fluoride [SDF]).

Children ; Early childhood caries ; Nonoperative ; Restoration ; Review ; Treatment.

nije evidentirano