ACFF STRETCH GOAL
Every child born across Europe in 2026 and thereafter should stay cavity-free during their lifetime
GOAL 1
Ensure that appropriate caries prevention and management can be implemented across Europe. This can be achieved by:
• Engaging with broad range of education bodies and health disciplines across Europe to adopt the approach and mindset of ‘caries as a continuum’
• Facilitating the rollout of the European Core Curriculum in Cariology in dental schools across Europe to ensure a comprehensive education for the importance of caries prevention and management is delivered to the next generation of dental teams as well as to continuing education
• Supporting a uniform and harmonised core teaching on caries in paediatric dentistry
• Supporting the promotion and implementation of a caries classification management system for dental professionals such as ICCMS™
• Facilitating discussions to ensure that remuneration systems support caries prevention and control without perverse incentives
GOAL 2
Work collaboratively to achieve a reduction in caries inequality within and across European States in the context of both oral and general health. This can be achieved by:
•Facilitating the creation and regular update of an epidemiological map of the caries prevalence and distribution landscape in Europe
•Identifying and using the most suitable metrics to assess and monitor reduction in caries inequality and associated risk factors, without health detriment
•Understanding the broader social determinants of health and oral health
•Challenging key policy makers to facilitate health promotion interventions in caries prevention and management and support regional implementation across Europe.