Recent advancement in preventive dentistry

The main goal of primary preventive dentistry is to emphasize on the importance of early detection and prevention of dental problems. Recent advances in prevention of dental caries prevention plays a very important role especially at the primary level so that the disease can be detected in its earliest stages. Other preventive measures include the use of probiotics slow fluoride releasing devices xylitol caries vaccine. Role of alkali production details which are discussed in further chapters.