CarieScan is proud to be a supporter of the up-coming

ICDAS International Workshop & Symposium on:
Clinical Diagnosis & Minimally Invasive Management of Dental Caries.

An outline of this innovative, invited participation-only, Workshop - which will be conducted in Philadelphia in April - is shown below. The Outcomes of the Workshop will be presented at an open Symposium to be held in Montpellier, France immediately prior to the 57th European Organisation for Caries Research (ORCA) Congress.

More details of the independent ICDAS Foundation can be found at www.ICDAS.org

Co –Chairs:

Dr. Nigel Pitts (University of Dundee) & Dr. Amid Ismail (Temple University)

ICDAS International Workshop & Symposium on:

Clinical Diagnosis & Minimally Invasive Management of Dental Caries
Temple Workshop Outline

This International Workshop will be held under the auspices of the ICDAS Foundation and the Kornberg School of Dentistry, Temple University on April 26th - 28th 2010, in Philadelphia, and will be chaired by Drs Ismail & Pitts.

The shared vision for the International Caries Detection and Assessment (ICDAS) Foundation is that:

• ICDAS is a clinical visual scoring system for use in dental education, clinical practice, research and epidemiology
• ICDAS is designed to lead to: better quality information to inform decisions about appropriate diagnosis, prognosis and clinical management at both the individual and public health levels

and

• ICDAS provides a framework to support and enable personalised Comprehensive Clinical Caries Management for improved long-term outcomes

The purpose of this participative development Workshop will be to:

Develop over three days, an evidence based caries management system (CMS) that defines new end points for interventions to control and prevent caries; specifying the supporting clinical, radiographic, as well as additional detection and risk assessment, data required for implementation.

The CMS will enable dentists to manage dental caries using primary preventive, secondary preventive, and restorative interventions (that is: preventive methods to stop caries initiation, provide early remineralization of non-cavitated lesions as well as minimal and advanced surgical interventions for cavitated lesions).

The specific Aims are:

• To define the end points in clinical management of caries to achieve the vision for the workshop.
• To develop protocols for caries management which build on the background evidence and developments in: the use of toothpastes, fluorides, sealants, non-sugar gums, xylitol products and remineralizing products.
• To develop protocols for caries management which are: practical, dental practice-friendly and can be developed as a new Caries Management System which recognises initial lesions and specifies when to use which type of preventive treatment (non-surgical intervention) option in truly minimally invasive dentistry.
• To form a Network of participating Dental Schools to implement and pilot the new system and use a real-time, outcome-focused, data management system to enter patient care data and evaluate progress. (This will allow the new system to be monitored and improved over time).

This Workshop will then be followed, as a second step, by a Symposium to be held by ICDAS in Montpellier, France, on July 6th, immediately prior to the 57th ORCA Congress (European Organisation for Caries Research), which will be held from 7 to 10 July, 2010 in Montpellier, France. This Symposium, also chaired by Drs Pitts & Ismail, will present the outcomes of the Temple University Workshop to an open audience of caries researchers and clinical academics for debate and peer review. At this event and later, other Dental Schools will be invited to commit to join the Network if they so wish.

The invited Workshop participants are expected to include representatives from the following Dental Schools:

• Temple University, USA
• New York University, USA
• University of the Pacific, USA
• Indiana University, USA
• University of Dundee, UK
• Copenhagen University, Denmark
• Sheffield University, UK
• Marburg University, Germany
• Universidad El Bosque, Bogota, Colombia
• Kuwait University, Kuwait

The following organisations are expected to explore facilitation of this ICDAS Project:

• FDI World Dental Federation
• IADR - the International Association for Dental Research
• ADA - American Dental Association
• BDA - British Dental Association

To date, the following commercial sponsors are supporting this project:

• Colgate,
• Trident Gum,
• CarieScan,

Other sponsors: Pending

The Scope of the Workshop will focus first on the needs of developed countries, but a second phase will then specifically make recommendations for any specific modifications required for developing countries with less well developed economies and infrastructures. The protocols will address patients across the full age spectrum.