Clinical method for evaluating the efficacy of caries prevention or treatment agents

摘要

A method of conducting clinical trials to evaluate the efficacy of agents or methods of caries prevention and treatment comprising the steps of conducting a visual-tactile assessment on qualifying human subjects of moderate to high caries incidence populations, assigning subjects to control group(s) and experimental group(s), supervising tooth brushing one or more times per day for a period of about 8 to about 12 months which runs concurrently with the school year and thereafter evaluating the efficacy of the product.