{"doi":"10.20396/bjos.v19i0.8656224","title":"Methods for caries prevention in adults among dentists from a brazilian community","abstract":"Little is known about dental practice patterns of caries prevention in adults among Brazilian dentists. OBJECTIVE: To quantify procedures used for caries prevention for adult patients among dentists from a Brazilian community. METHODS: Dentists (n=197) who reported that at least 10% of their patients are more than 18 years old participated in the first Brazilian study that used a translated version of the \"Assessment of Caries Diagnosis and Caries Treatment\" from the U.S. National Dental Practice-Based Research Network. A questionnaire about characteristics of their practice and patient population were also completed by the dentists. Generalized linear regression models and a hierarchal clustering procedure were used (p<0.05). RESULTS: In-office fluoride application was the preventive method most often reported. The main predictors for recommending some preventive agent were: female dentist (dental sealant; in-office fluoride; non-prescription fluoride) and percentage of patients interested in caries prevention (dental sealant; in-office fluoride; non-prescription fluoride). Other predictors included private practice (dental sealant), percentage of patients 65 years or older (in-office fluoride), graduation from a private dental school (non-prescription fluoride), years since dental school graduation (chlorhexidine rinse) and using a preventive method (recommending sealant/fluoride/chlorhexidine rinse/sugarless, xylitol gum). Cluster analysis showed that dentists in the largest subgroup seldom used any of the preventive agents. CONCLUSION: Dentists most often reported in-office fluoride as a method for caries prevention in adults. Some practitioner, practice and patients' characteristics were positively associated with more-frequent use of a preventive agent.","journal":"Brazilian journal of oral sciences/Brazilian Journal of Oral Sciences","year":2020,"id":111619,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":4,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9562,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2020-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":529084,"name":"Sílvio Rocha Corrêa da Silva","orcid":"0000-0002-0227-8896","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":529085,"name":"Fernanda Lopez Rosell","orcid":"0000-0002-6270-9168","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":529086,"name":"Aylton Valsecki Júnior","orcid":"0000-0002-1776-0925","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":452429,"name":"Joseph L. Riley","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":331712,"name":"Gregg H. Gilbert","orcid":"0000-0003-2017-625X","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":388937,"name":"Valeria V. Gordan","orcid":"0000-0003-0381-5996","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":529083,"name":"Elaine Pereira da Silva Tagliaferro","orcid":"0000-0001-6225-6915","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":31,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-18T23:13:05.597252Z","pmid":"32461752","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}