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The Effectiveness of Community Water Fluoridation in the United States
Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 1996AbstractGrand Rapids, the first city in the world to implement controlled water fluoridation, has served as a model for thousands of other communities. Fluoridation is one of the greatest public health and disease‐preventive measures of all time. Its advantages include effectiveness for all, ease of delivery, safety, equity, and low cost. Today, nearly
Herschel S Horowitz, H S Horowitz
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2021
Since the discovery of the caries preventive benefits of fluoride, it has been the cornerstone of preventive programs for children and adults. Water fluoridation, the controlled addition of a precise amount of fluoride to community water systems to the level beneficial for dental health, is one of the most effective and safe means to deliver fluoride ...
Vasantavada, Priyanka V. +4 more
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Since the discovery of the caries preventive benefits of fluoride, it has been the cornerstone of preventive programs for children and adults. Water fluoridation, the controlled addition of a precise amount of fluoride to community water systems to the level beneficial for dental health, is one of the most effective and safe means to deliver fluoride ...
Vasantavada, Priyanka V. +4 more
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Community water fluoridation in Leningrad and Moscow
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 1988Abstract A total of 47 water samples were obtained over a 3‐yr period in the cities of Leningrad and Moscow in the USSR. All the samples had their fluoride content analyzed blindly outside the Soviet Union. A total of three samples had therapeutic levels of fluoride (0.8 ppm or above); all the other 44 samples had fluoride levels of 0.3 ppm or less.
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Community water fluoridation support and opposition in Australia.
Community dental health, 2011To estimate the level of support for water fluoridation across Australia and examine the association between water fluoridation stance and demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, commitment to the stance, and opinions, beliefs and knowledge regarding water fluoridation.Cross-sectional questionnaire data were obtained from 510 Australian adults ...
Armfield, Jason M, Akers, H. F.
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Issues in the economic evaluation of community water fluoridation
Journal of Dental Education, 1989Community water fluoridation has long been recognized as an effective public health intervention in the prevention of dental caries. The recently documented secular decline in dental caries, however, presents for policy makers the challenge of appropriately allocating limited health care resources between a variety of health care programs.
B A, White +2 more
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Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 1971
A request to the American Academy of Allergy has been made by the United States Public Health Service for an evaluation of the question of allergy to fluoride as used in the fluoridation of community water supplies. I t was further requested that such an evaluation include a review of clinical reports of allergy to fluoride and express an opinion ...
K F, Austen +10 more
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A request to the American Academy of Allergy has been made by the United States Public Health Service for an evaluation of the question of allergy to fluoride as used in the fluoridation of community water supplies. I t was further requested that such an evaluation include a review of clinical reports of allergy to fluoride and express an opinion ...
K F, Austen +10 more
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Fluoride intake by Brazilian children from two communities with fluoridated water
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 2003Abstract –Objectives: To determine total daily fluoride intake by young children from two communities in a developing country.Methods: Fluoride intake from diet and dentifrice was determined for 71 Brazilian children, aged 19–38 months, living in two communities with fluoridated water (0.6–0.8 ppm). The children from Piracicaba attended a full‐time day
Saul M, Paiva +2 more
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Caries Research, 2009
After five semi-annual applications of two fluoride varnishes, the amount of permanently bound fluoride in the enamel surface was determined in children with lifelong exposure to fluoridated water. The experimental groups consisted of 51 (Duraphat®) and 61 (Fluor Protector®) children aged 13–15 years; and a control group of 71 children of the same age ...
L, Seppä, H, Luoma, H, Hausen
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After five semi-annual applications of two fluoride varnishes, the amount of permanently bound fluoride in the enamel surface was determined in children with lifelong exposure to fluoridated water. The experimental groups consisted of 51 (Duraphat®) and 61 (Fluor Protector®) children aged 13–15 years; and a control group of 71 children of the same age ...
L, Seppä, H, Luoma, H, Hausen
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The AADOCR Position Statement on Community Water Fluoridation
Journal of Dental ResearchCommunity water fluoridation (CWF) is a foundational public health intervention that has significantly reduced the global burden of dental caries across the lifespan. The American Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research (AADOCR) reaffirms its strong support for CWF as a safe, evidence-based, and cost-saving method of delivering fluoride
R. Moffat +9 more
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Salt Fluoridation An Adjunct to Community Water Fluoridation.
The Journal of the American College of Dentists, 2018After 70 years of community water fluoridation in the United States, still over 100 million people do not have the benefits of dietary fluoride. The saturation level may have been reached. Salt fluoridation can be an adjunct method for improving children's dental health in noncommunity water fluoridation areas. It is used worldwide and the World Health
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