Learning about CAMBRA , chapter 4

The unique additions to the graph are the comparisons of the costs of catching this early versus waiting too long and the disease has caused more and more serious "symtoms". Also, please note the suggested locations where "risk factor assessments" are recomended.















It may seem absurd to have your risk factor assessment even
before you are born !!
But, now that you have learned about your "source" of the disease, it makes perfect sense, yes?

It also would seem utterly absurd to have a "caries risk factor assessment" when a person is currently having frank cavities! An uninformed person might think that starting to cure the disease while the destruction is already in his mouth is not logical.....because to his way of uninformed thinking, doing the fillings is first priority (remember that in "traditional dentistry" or "old dentistry", doing fillings was thought to actually cure the disease or at least help cure it)

NOTE: It will be important, even when using the CAMBRA methodology to cure the disease, to get the cavities cleaned out and restored as quickly as possible. Why? Because they are getting deeper and bigger with every passing hour and the bigger and deeper, the more expensive.....even though placing fillings doen't have effect on curing Dental Caries, the disease that caused the decay.

So why begin to "cure" immediately. You already know the answer....it's because only 10% of your fillings are the ones that are irreversible and need surgery, but 90% are "reversible" and you will need to cure Dental Caries before your body can "remineralize" these incipient, reversible decalcifications called incipient cavities......So you actually start immediately with both approaches: fillings and cure.

So having a caries risk assessment at any time makes good sense because the sooner-the-better since disease progresses every minute, hour, day and month etc. Fortunately, now you don't have to be a victim of a seemingly out-of-control disease. You can stop it in its tracks!

This blog and these chapters are accessible through the world wide web, and can be easily accessed by literally anyone, anywhere, even if they don't have a computer. A library usually has computers that can access this valuable information. To have additional, very patient-friendly and interactively structured information go to http://www.carifree.com. There is valuable help there no matter what your level of understanding is at the moment. (just tap on this hyperlink and it will take you there immediately)

See you at the last chapter, chapter 5.