Dental hygiene aficionados have surely noticed a new format battling for a share of the oral hygiene market. Toothpaste tablets are dry, pressed-powder pills about the size of an aspirin or a pea.

Question: In caries-active adolescents how effective is a 5,000 ppm F dentifrice compared with a 1,450 ppm F dentifrice in preventing caries? Volunteers aged 14-16 years with DMFS ≥ 5 were recruited, ...