The outcome of implementation of a dental prophylactics programme among eleven-year-old children from the Lublin region.

The aim of this study was evaluation of effectiveness of a professional carious disease prevention programme implemented in the Lublin region for a group of 11-year-old children at high risk of caries. On the basis of clinical dental examination a group of children at high risk of caries was selected (yearly increase in the number of new active caries foci of 4 and more--mean D value of 5.66), in whom therapeutic and prophylactic procedures comprising the caries prevention programme were performed. In a follow-up examination performed one year after the completion of the programme, much lower yearly increase in the number of new active caries foci was observed (mean D value of 0.61). Improvement of oral hygiene status was also observed in the study group. The caries prevention programme that we applied in the group of 11-year-old children proved to be highly effective.