Abstract
Despite the long-reported decrease of dental caries in children, many patients present with dental caries in multiple teeth. As for the pedodontic patients with caries, their guardians’ cooperation as well as the patient’s effort is a vital component of treatment and maintenance care since living environment and knowledge and understanding of the dental caries by their guardians have a great impact on the patients’ disease progression and its management. Information on dental caries being abundant, it is important to provide accurate information to their guardians as well as the patients at a right time in a fitting manner. In this report presented is a 9-year follow-up case of caries risk management for a high-risk patient aged 3 years and 7 months at the initial visit. The guardian’s understanding and collaboration throughout the course of treatment and maintenance care played a major role in an attempt for healthy permanent teeth .
