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To support a shift toward a more preventive and outcomes-focused philosophy, the ICCMSTM group developed a framework that synthesizes risk assessment data with caries classifications.
To support a shift toward a more preventive and outcomes-focused philosophy, the ICCMSTM group developed a framework that synthesizes risk assessment data with caries classifications.
The aim is to help clinicians systematically identify patients at risk of caries detect initial and treat them non-operatively wherever possible and, where surgery is needed ICCMSTM provides guidance on healthy tissue preservation.
As a result this framework will deliver health maintenance, disease control, patient-centered quality metrics as well as the wider impacts of using the system.
Our Core Training elearing programme is structured to reflect these elements and is tailored to your specific field of dentistry. One of the underlying tools in ICCMSTM, the ICDAS caries coding system, grew out of research from dental schools around the world. It's now combined within ICCMSTM to provide a complete understanding of patient risk and caries status so that clinicians can better synthesise treatment need and align it with ICCMSTM treatment guidance.
The ICCMS™ modern approach to cariology is now being taught in many dental schools in many countries. There are also moves underway by ORCA, ADEE and ACFF to develop further the implementation of the European core cariology curriculum which includes ICCMS™. The System has also played a key part of the ACFF Symposia held at the ADEE/ADEA joint events on Shaping the Future of Dental Education held in London in 2017 (see links on this page) and in Brescia in 2019.