European Journal of Dentistry

A key factor for planning any preventive pro-gram is to accurately assess a person’s risk of developing a disease. Dental caries is a multifac-torial disease and is affected by several factors, such as the patient’s general health and diet, the amount and type of bacteria present in the oral cavity, salivary factors and exposure to fluoride.1-3 Thus, caries risk assessment approaches should Objective: The aims of this study were to: (1) evaluate the caries risk in young adults using Car-iogram and (2) compare the efficiency of Cariogram with the regression risk models created using the same variables in Cariogram by examining the actual caries progression over a 2-year period. Methods: This study included 100 subjects that were either twenty or twenty-one years-old. Data on general health, diet, oral hygiene and use of fluoride were obtained. Saliva analyses were per-formed, including mutans streptococci and lactobacilli counts, secretion rate and buffer capacity