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Early Childhood Caries remains a highly prevalent world-wide disease that has high costs to society and has a major impact on parents’ and children’s quality of life. Approaches to reduce its prevalence includes management of the disease by primary prevention (fluoride, dietary control, education and Background legislation) secondary prevention (e.g., arresting the progression of caries prior to the cavitation stage of lesions) and tertiary prevention (both non-invasive and invasive preventive management when there are cavitated lesions).
