The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry is regularly publishing updates of protocols and guidelines. This article is a Dutch summary of and comment on a special issue of the journal Pediatric Dentistry with evaluated protocols and articles on guidelines for dentists. The protocols have been adapted to modern insights, but not very practical described. To use these protocols and guideliness in Dutch pediatric dentistry, it is advocated to take into consideration the individual childs age and behaviour and to base ones strategies on data of randomized clinical trials.