The erosion risk status can be determined with the Dental erosive wear risk assessment (DEWRA) form (Table 16.2) developed by Young et al. [2] and described in detail in Chap.​ 7 of this book [2]. With DEWRA, the patient’s responses to more in-depth history-taking regarding dietary and oral hygiene habits, social and lifestyle habits, general health conditions, together with a detailed clinical recording of erosive wear lesions using the BEWE or other scoring system, guide the practitioner to assign the patient to low, medium, or high risk status categories. The risk status of the patient guides the practitioner’s recommendations for the management of the condition, which includes the recall interval for review and monitor. The DEWRA guidance indicates that the frequency range for recall could be as high as once every 6 months for patients at high risk of developing erosive tooth wear, to a low of once every 2 years for those at low risk of developing erosion. Thus the DEWRA recommends that patient with erosive tooth wear should be reviewed and monitored as follows:

It is important to mention that the same risk assessment tool used for the initial risk status assessment should be used for reassessment at each subsequent recall visit. The above recommended recall interval accords with that of the BEWE, which depends on the severity level of the lesion. With BEWE, the dentition is divided into sextants and the most severely affected surface in a sextant is recorded. The sum of the scores of the six sextants constitutes the index value, which guides the management of the condition, including the recall interval (Table 16.3).

In general, recommended interval between oral health reviews should be determined specifically for each patient and tailored to meet his or her needs. Besides patient’s erosion severity levels and erosion risk status, recall intervals may be influenced by whether it is for review and monitor of overall risk management, for assessing preventive interventions, for monitoring of the progression status of existing erosion lesions, or for reviews of behavioral and lifestyle modification plans. Interval should be set with the clinical judgment and expertise of the dental team. The recall interval should be chosen either on completion of a specific treatment journey or at the end of an oral health review if no further treatment is indicated [7]. The dentist should discuss the recommended recall interval with the patient and the patient’s agreement or disagreement with it should be sought. This discussion should involve consideration to the patient’s ability or desire to visit the dentist at the recommended interval, the financial costs to the patient of having such review visits and any subsequent treatments, and other possible impediments to the patient’s compliance to this review interval [8]. It is important to inform the patient that his/her recall interval may change from time to time subject to change in his/her erosion risk status.