Guglielmo Campus

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    New approach in prevention and pediatric dentistry

    For decades, pediatric and prevention dentistry was considered the Cinderella of all dental disciplines as it seemed that pediatric and prevention dentistry was not evolving, today is not true anymore, especially in today’s dental landscape. It is undeniable that an individual’s oral health is built during childhood. Correct eating, hygiene and behavioral habits lead, in most cases, to the development of a healthy and harmonious dental, periodontal and skeletal apparatus. Moreover, thanks to the mass introduction of fluoride, caries has decreased worldwide. Several carious lesions, especially in deciduous dentition, affect disadvantaged children and often go untreated. From this perspective, the paradigm shift that cariologists are suggesting and that dentists are still struggling to accept will bring great benefits to children’s health as the widespread use of non-operative and minimally invasive treatments for lesion management is changing the clinical routine of physicians and their patients. The introduction of new preventive and restorative materials that are better suited to the needs of young patients represents an important milestone (i.e. the introduction of moisture-tolerant resin-based materials makes it possible to work with a higher probability of success even when a perfectly moisture-free field is not possible). What we must bear in mind, however, is that the child must be placed at the center of care, must be listened to in his or her needs, understood in his or her difficulties and limitations and helped to become a healthy adult.

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    Guglielmo Campus is Professor of Preventive Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Through his research and his work within WHO, among others, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg in 2023. He began his training at the Dental school, University of Sassari where he received his degree. He is Associate Professor Community Dentistry, Cariology and Paeditric Dentistry, University of Sassari since 2014. He is also Coordinator of the Italian WHO Collaborating Center (WHO CC) for Epidemiology and Community Dentistry. Research interests are largely direct towards Oral Epidemiology, Community Dentistry, Preventive Dentistry, Cariology and Paediatric Dentistry. During the years research interests span from Public Health Dentistry, Community Dentistry, Paediatric Dentistry, Restorative materials and Preventive programs. He is Member of the Research Board within The Italian Minister of Health for the realization of the Italian National Guidelines for Caries prevention and of the Clinical recommendations in Paediatric Dentistry. Dr. Campus is authors of more than 200 scientific papers. His work inside the WHO CC is to plan, to coordinate the assessing of oral health conditions of populations, policies development and implementation in Italy and other countries like Burkina Faso, Mexico etc; to support the early implementation of the phase down use of dental amalgam in the context of the Minamata Convention and Universal Health coverage (UHC) in Italy; to support measure that encourage life-course approach and population-based strategies related to reducing sugar consumption, tobacco control and affordability of fluoride-containing toothpaste and others vehicles of fluoride.

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  • Lecture details

    New approach in prevention and pediatric dentistry

    For decades, pediatric and prevention dentistry was considered the Cinderella of all dental disciplines as it seemed that pediatric and prevention dentistry was not evolving, today is not true anymore, especially in today’s dental landscape. It is undeniable that an individual’s oral health is built during childhood. Correct eating, hygiene and behavioral habits lead, in most cases, to the development of a healthy and harmonious dental, periodontal and skeletal apparatus. Moreover, thanks to the mass introduction of fluoride, caries has decreased worldwide. Several carious lesions, especially in deciduous dentition, affect disadvantaged children and often go untreated. From this perspective, the paradigm shift that cariologists are suggesting and that dentists are still struggling to accept will bring great benefits to children’s health as the widespread use of non-operative and minimally invasive treatments for lesion management is changing the clinical routine of physicians and their patients. The introduction of new preventive and restorative materials that are better suited to the needs of young patients represents an important milestone (i.e. the introduction of moisture-tolerant resin-based materials makes it possible to work with a higher probability of success even when a perfectly moisture-free field is not possible). What we must bear in mind, however, is that the child must be placed at the center of care, must be listened to in his or her needs, understood in his or her difficulties and limitations and helped to become a healthy adult.

  • CV

    Guglielmo Campus is Professor of Preventive Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Through his research and his work within WHO, among others, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg in 2023. He began his training at the Dental school, University of Sassari where he received his degree. He is Associate Professor Community Dentistry, Cariology and Paeditric Dentistry, University of Sassari since 2014. He is also Coordinator of the Italian WHO Collaborating Center (WHO CC) for Epidemiology and Community Dentistry. Research interests are largely direct towards Oral Epidemiology, Community Dentistry, Preventive Dentistry, Cariology and Paediatric Dentistry. During the years research interests span from Public Health Dentistry, Community Dentistry, Paediatric Dentistry, Restorative materials and Preventive programs. He is Member of the Research Board within The Italian Minister of Health for the realization of the Italian National Guidelines for Caries prevention and of the Clinical recommendations in Paediatric Dentistry. Dr. Campus is authors of more than 200 scientific papers. His work inside the WHO CC is to plan, to coordinate the assessing of oral health conditions of populations, policies development and implementation in Italy and other countries like Burkina Faso, Mexico etc; to support the early implementation of the phase down use of dental amalgam in the context of the Minamata Convention and Universal Health coverage (UHC) in Italy; to support measure that encourage life-course approach and population-based strategies related to reducing sugar consumption, tobacco control and affordability of fluoride-containing toothpaste and others vehicles of fluoride.