"Since we have so much knowledge in Cariology, why don't we end the threat of caries"? From this issue, Nigel Pitts, one of the most respected researchers in Cariology, provided a special course in July, promoted by ABO National, during the International Congress of Dentistry of ABO Rio de Janeiro, complementing and extending the topics discussed at the Global Caries Conference.

Pitts, who is also president of the European Organization for Research in Cariology (Orca) and member of the European Association for Dental Public Health and the International Association for Dental Research (IADR), began talking about the current scientific evidences on caries, its consequences and control, and the consensus about it.

The researcher also presented the International Caries Detection & Assessment System (ICDAS), developed to assist in the diagnosis and prognosis of the disease and the exchange of clinical information through codes relating to many different types of carious lesions. In order to answer the original question, Pitts discussed about the difficulties of putting into practice the evidences raised on Cariology and concepts that should also be changed in the process of knowledge transfer .