wear progression appears to occur at a relatively slow rate, particu- larly in cases where preventative advice has been successfully implemented.28,29
However, sporadic bursts of wear activity may occur amongst these patients associ- ated with lifestyle changes and personal circumstances, which may have the poten- tial to produce severe wear. This concept supports the need for a ‘screening tool’, which will help to detect clinically signifi- cant pathological wear and help to monitor wear progression over an extended period of time (particularly where practitioners within a given dental practice may change over such a given long period of time).