Improved oral health at low cost.
Cleaning teeth and gums, using fluorides, and eating fermentable carbohydrates with meals (rather than between meals) are the measures encouraged by health education and information programs that have brought about an 80% decrease in carious cavities in industrialized countries in the last 20 years. As such prevention is not only better, but also cheaper than repairs, it is advocated that all children should be taught these precepts from the age of two years