ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2023
Effect of Different Frequencies of Dental Visits on Dental Caries and Periodontal Disease: A Scoping Review.
Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Activity and levels of TNF-α, IL-6 and IL-8 in saliva of children and young adults with dental caries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC oral health · 2024Pooled it
- Longitudinal analysis of dental healthcare costs among adolescents living in Amsterdam.Acta odontologica Scandinavica · 2026Article
- Key Mediators Reducing Socioeconomic Inequality in Early Childhood Caries.JDR clinical and translational research · 2026Article
- Cold Atmospheric Plasma in Pediatric Dentistry: A Paradigm Shift toward Antibiotic-free Minimally Invasive Care.International journal of clinical pediatric dentistry · 2026Review
- Racial and Ethnic Variations in Dental Care Utilization and Expenditures: Associations with Usual Source of Care and Foreign-Born Status.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Parental knowledge and practices and associated factors of dental caries in school-age children in Debark Town, Northwest Ethiopia.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Mapping the ECC-Saliva Neuroimmune Axis Using AI: A System-Level Framework.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Inequalities in dental service utilization among adults in Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal: a population-based cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Convenient Biochemical Testing Technologies for Oral Disease Risk Warning: Opportunities and Challenges.Biosensors · 2025Review
- Associated factors of dental caries among middle-aged adults in Guizhou Province, China (2019-2020).BMC oral health · 2025Article
- Probability of referral to curative dental treatment in a preventive pediatric dentistry program.Brazilian oral research · 2025Article
- Artificial Intelligence Integrated with Intraoral Digital Imaging in Dental Caries Detection, Treatment Planning, and Clinical Decision-Making: A Scoping Review.F1000Research · 2025Article
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Abstract
Recommending dental visits every six months is commonplace among dental practitioners worldwide. A scoping review was conducted by electronically searching PubMed, Scopus and Embase to identify and map the nature of evidence for the effect of different frequencies of dental visits on dental caries and periodontal disease. Studies were written in English on the frequency of dental visits and published between January 2008 and April 2023. Three systematic reviews that evaluated the risk of bias, strength of studies and certainty of evidence were included from the 4537 articles yielded through the search strategy. The available evidence was weak and of low quality for the currently recommended frequencies of dental visits, whether these are fixed or universal. For adults, there was little to no effect of making biannual, biennial or risk-based dental visits on dental caries and periodontal disease, which was supported by moderate- to high-certainty evidence. Accordingly, it is suggested that dental professionals and dental insurance providers make individually tailored, customised and risk-based recommendations for dental visits, rather than encouraging fixed or universal frequencies of dental visits. For children and adolescents, further research on this issue warrants well-designed randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and cohort studies of sufficient duration with an adequate number of participants.
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