UCSF Silver Diamine Fluoride Guidelines
Channel: Jeremy Horst
Date: 2017-01-25

The science and protocol for using topical silver diamine fluoride to treat and prevent dental caries.

This presentation was developed by Helene Ellenikiotis and Jeremy Horst, to educate the UCSF Dentistry faculty, based on the work of the UCSF School of Dentistry Paradigm Shift Committee's subcommittee on silver caries arrest. Contributing members included Sean Mong DDS, EdD; Spomenka Djordjevic DDS, MS; Paul Atkinson DDS, PhD; George Taylor DMD, MPH, DrPH; Natalie Heaivilin DDS; Ling Zhan DDS, PhD; John Featherstone PhD; Hellene Ellenikiotis DDS; and Jeremy Horst DDS, PhD. 

Additional thanks to Chun Hung Chu BDS, MDS, PhD; Edward Lo BDS, MDS, PhD; Peter Milgrom DDS; Geoff Knight BDSc, MSc, MBA; Graham Craig DDS, PhD; Nate Kaufman DDS; Martin MacIntyre DDS; Steve Duffin DMD; John Frachella DMD; Jason Hirsch DMD; Cate Quas DDS; Douglas Young DDS; Joel White DDS; Sophia Saeed DMD; Biana Roykh DDS; Sheila Brear BDS; Chad Zillich DMD; Linda Milgrom; and Arwa Owais BDS, MS among others, for helpful discussions and many contributions.

Please see our paper on this subject for details (page 17-28).
http://www.cda.org/Portals/0/journal/journal_012016.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4778976
http://decisionsindentistry.com/article/fresh-approach-to-caries-arrest-in-adults
http://decisionsindentistry.com/article/silver-diamine-fluoride-use-older-adults

Filmed and edited by Alex Vigano.