The shared vision for ICDAS is:

 ¤ ICDAS is a clinical scoring system for use in dental education,
 clinical practice, research, and epidemiology
.

 ¤ ICDAS is designed to: lead to better quality information to inform
 decisions about appropriate diagnosis, prognosis, and clinical
 management at both the indivdual and public health levels
.

 and
 ¤ ICDAS provides a framework to support and enable personalised
  total caries management for improved long term health outcomes
.
 


International Caries Detection
& Assessment System
 

The clinical framework for implementing ICDAS-enabled, patient-centred caries management. For further explanation see Pitts, 2009, Monographs in Oral Science, KARGER chapter 1.