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The goal of caries risk assessment is to deliver preventive and restorative care optimized to a specific individual patient. Presently, however, few studies so far have determined how the application of caries risk assessment affects individual dental health outcomes. Dental caries care pathways are based on an understanding of risk factors as applied Background to a specific child. Children at high caries risk require intense prevention to prevent caries initiation and arrest caries progression. Care pathways also assume that there will be little benefit of advanced preventive therapies for those children who are at low risk for dental caries (see Table for care pathways).
