A college-based dental program that may forestall as much as 80% of cavities is coming to a few New Hampshire college districts.

CariedAway™ NH Harmony, an modern cavity prevention program developed by researchers at NYU School of Dentistry (NYU Dentistry), has obtained a $1 million, three-year award from Northeast Delta Dental to launch in elementary and center faculties in Harmony, Pittsfield, and the Merrimack Valley college district. This system will use point-of-care expertise created by Massachusetts-based New England Survey Techniques (NESS) to design precision therapy plans.

In New Hampshire, one in 20 youngsters coming into kindergarten has untreated cavities. This grows to at least one in 4 college students leaving highschool with dental decay. In each youngsters and adults, untreated dental cavities are extra frequent than diabetes and coronary heart illness mixed, in line with a 2022 World Well being Group report. 

With out well timed care, these preventable dental infections can result in ache, college absences, and decrease educational and job efficiency. Bringing cavity prevention to youngsters at faculties can eradicate the obstacles to receiving preventive and healing dental care that many households face, together with value and taking day off work and faculty.

“Our purpose is to measurably enhance youngsters’s oral well being, high quality of life, and faculty efficiency,” mentioned Richard Niederman, DMD, professor of epidemiology & well being promotion at NYU Dentistry and founding father of CariedAway. “With New Hampshire’s pent-up demand for grownup dental care overwhelming dentists, CariedAway units youngsters on a wholesome path for his or her future.”

“We’re proud to assist a program that has been proven to successfully arrest and forestall tooth decay in youngsters,” defined Tom Raffio, President & CEO, Northeast Delta Dental. “CariedAway not solely improves the oral well being of kids in New Hampshire but in addition encourages them to develop good oral well being routines early in life.”