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This page explains how the Prevention and Management of Dental Caries in Children guidance is presented in this website. See below for advice on how to use the website and tips on how to get the best from it.

Home page

  • Guidance provides a summary Guidance in Brief, plus thirteen in-depth guidance sub-topics
    • Guidance in Brief: a summary of all sub-topics within the guidance
    • Guidance sub-topics: Overarching principles, Assessment, Helping the family, Planning care, Pain or infection, Caries prevention, Caries management in primary teeth, Caries management in permanent teeth, Dental techniques, Referral, Recall, Providing additional support
  • About this guidance includes 
    • the context, scope and main changes in this edition of the guidance, within the Introduction
    • guidance development and the methodology employed 
    • information about endorsers of the guidance 
  • Supporting tools includes resources to support users to implement the guidance

Page features

  • Key recommendations are clearly indicated. The basis for these recommendations can be viewed via the accordion below.

Key recommendation

Key recommendations are presented in this format.

Information on the evidence which supports the key recommendation is included here.

  • Other drop-down titles give access to more in-depth information.

More in-depth information is included here.

  • Bulleted clinical practice advice points are presented in shaded panels.

Clinical practice advice points are presented in this format.

Search and navigation

  • The top menu provides easy access to Guidance, About this guidance, Supporting tools, Search.
  • Use the left-hand menus to delve more deeply into the guidance or go back a level.
  • Use the search function to find specific information of interest. Page titles that match your search term are listed first in the search results. If your search term is not in a page title, it is likely to be in the first few pages listed.
  • On any page, click the Home icon to return to the Home page.
  • Use the Navigation page to access links to all pages on the website.