Tinanoff, NormanPotgieter, NicolineBanerjee, Avijit2024-11-262024-11-262024Tinanoff, N., Banerjee, A., Buzalaf, M.A.R., Chen, J.W., Dhar, V., Ekstrand, K.R., Fontana, M., Innes, N., Koo, H., Listl, S. and Lo, E.C.M., 2024. Principles and care pathways for caries management in children: IAPD Rome forum. International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry.https://10.1111/ipd.13192https://hdl.handle.net/10566/19727The traditional approaches to the treatment of dental caries have focused on repairing the consequences of the caries process, the lesions, rather than addressing the disease process itself. Advances in the understanding of caries microbiology, de-/remineralization cycling, risk/susceptibility assessment, staging of lesion activity/severity, non-surgical/micro-/minimally invasive procedures and public health interventions are fundamentally changing the landscape of caries management. To facilitate the global adoption of contemporary caries management for children, international experts were convened as part of an International Association of Paediatric Dentistry (IAPD) forum in Rome, in November 2022. This expert panel met for a one-day pre-conference workshop to discuss and consider principles of cariology and care pathways to improve oral health for individuals and healthcare systems. The topics discussed included advances in the science of cariology, advances in caries management, improving oral healthcare systems and teaching caries management. Such advances are especially important for children's oral health because of the value of establishing early preventive behaviours (including caregivers), difficulties of performing procedures in young children and inequalities/inequities in children's oral health care. The topics were presented over the two-and-a-half-day congress, and the feedback was collected. This position paper presents the summarized evidence collated by the expert panel and the IAPD Board of Directors.enOrthodonticsPediatric Dentistrycare pathwayschildrendental cariesArticle