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Monitoring of fluoride in the public water supply using electrometric or colorimetric analyses

Revista Ambiente & Água, 2020
The surveillance of the concentration of fluoride in the public water supply aims to ensure the balance between the benefits (carie prevention) and risk (dental fluorosis) of water fluoridation programs. The aim of this study was to check the accuracy of
Caio Luiz Lins-Candeiro, Karen Katlein Dolenkei, Luiz Renato Paranhos, Douglas Queiroz Santos, Jaime Aparecido Cury, Juliana Pereira da Silva Faquim   +5 more
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The growth and dissolution of sodium fluoride hopper crystalsWhy Is This Important?

JADA Foundational Science, 2023
Background: Caries is still prevalent despite the current understanding and use of fluoride. Faster-dissolving crystals of sodium fluoride (NaF) in a fluoride treatment could improve the efficacy of current preventative approaches. Methods: In this study,
Alexis N. Frigyes, BS, MS, Jacqueline Holdren, William A. McHale, BS, Mark A. Latta, BS, MS, DMD, Stephen M. Gross, BS, PhD   +4 more
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Association of clinical, social and environmental variables with dental caries prevalence in adolescents from a Brazilian municipality supplied with fluoridated water

Cadernos de Saúde Coletiva, 2021
Background Although a trend towards dental caries reduction has been observed, further investigations on its pattern and development are still needed.
Ana Paula Ferreira Marques, Aretuza Pires dos Santos Lattanzi, Flavia Maia Silveira, Maria Isabel Bastos Valente, Karine Laura Cortellazzi, Andréa Videira Assaf   +5 more
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The Fluoride Debate: The Pros and Cons of Fluoridation

Preventive Nutrition and Food Science, 2018
Fluoride is one of the most abundant elements found in nature. Water is the major dietary source of fluoride. The only known association with low fluoride intake is the risk of dental caries.
A. Aoun, Farah Darwiche, Sibelle Al Hayek, Jacqueline Doumit   +3 more
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GRADE equity guidelines 3: considering health equity in GRADE guideline development: rating the certainty of synthesized evidence [PDF]

, 2017
Objectives: The aim of this paper is to describe a conceptual framework for how to consider health equity in the Grading Recommendations Assessment and Development Evidence (GRADE) guideline development process. Study Design and Setting: Consensus-
Akl, Elie A., Ansari, Mohammed T., Briel, Matthias, Christensen, Robin, Dans, Antonio, Dans, Leonila, Eslava-Schmalbach, J, Guyatt, Gordon, Hultcrantz, Monica, Jull, Janet, Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal, Lang, Eddy, Matovinovic, Elizabeth, Meerpohl, Joerg J., Morton, Rachael L., Mosdol, Annhild, Murad, M.Hassan, Petkovic, Jennifer, Pottie, Kevin, Schünemann, Holger, Sharaf, Ravi, Shea, Bev, Singh, Jasvinder A., Solà, Ivan, Stanev, Roger, Stein, Airton, Thabaneii, Lehana, Tonia, Thomy, Tristan, Mario, Tugwell, Peter, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Vitols, Sigurd, Watine, Joseph, Welch, Vivian A.   +33 more
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Distribution of Dental Fluorosis in the Southern Zone of Ecuador: An Epidemiological Study

Dentistry Journal, 2023
In recent decades, the increase in fluoride exposure has raised the numbers of dental fluorosis in fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities In Ecuador, but the last national epidemiological study on DF was conducted more than a decade ago.
Eleonor María Vélez-León, Alberto Albaladejo-Martínez, Paulina Ortíz-Ortega, Katherine Cuenca-León, Ana Armas-Vega, María Melo   +5 more
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In situ anticaries efficacy of dentifrices with different formulations – A pooled analysis of results from three randomized clinical trials [PDF]

, 2018
Objectives Data generated from three similar in situ caries crossover studies presented the opportunity to conduct a pooled analysis to investigate how dentifrice formulations with different fluoride salts and combinations at concentrations of 1400 ...
Bosma, Mary Lynn, Butler, Andrew, Constantin, Paul, Creeth, Johnathan, Hara, Anderson T., Lippert, Frank, Newby, Evelyn, Zero, Domenick T.   +7 more
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Evaluation of an oral health training program for school nurses [PDF]

, 2005
Pediatric dental disease is a silent epidemic (Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, 2002). Dental decay is commonly unrecognized and under-treated, and can affect children\u27s growth and development as well as their ability to perform in
Drengler, Linda
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Effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit of a single annual professional intervention for the prevention of childhood dental caries in a remote rural Indigenous community [PDF]

, 2015
Background The aim of the study is to reduce the high prevalence of tooth decay in children in a remote, rural Indigenous community in Australia, by application of a single annual dental preventive intervention.
A Ahovuo-Saloranta, A Tam, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, BF Gooch, BL Pihlstrom, FJ Ramos-Gomez, GC Mejia, GD Slade, J Abanto, JA Aas, JA Weintraub, Jeroen Kroon, JJ Caro, JM Tanzer, JY Lee, K Gabris, K Pieper, K Roberts-Thomson, KF Roberts-Thomson, KJ Stevens, L Lopez, L Zhan, Lisa M. Jamieson, LJ Walsh, M Bonecker, MF Savage, MM Braga, MS Skeie, National Health & Medical Research Council, Newell W. Johnson, NW Johnson, Ohnmar Tut, OK Tut, Paul A. Scuffham, PL Rouxel, PM Milgrom, PS Ollila, Ratilal Lalloo, RH Selwitz, RJ Berkowitz, RJ Marino, Robyn Boase, S Gherunpong, S Krisdapong, S Kumar, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Surani Fernando, T Vos, Valda Wallace, VC Marinho, W Marcenes, Yvonne Cadet-James   +52 more
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How effective and cost-effective is water fluoridation for adults and adolescents? The LOTUS 10-year retrospective cohort study.

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology
OBJECTIVE To pragmatically assess the clinical and cost-effectiveness of water fluoridation for preventing dental treatment and improving oral health in a contemporary population of adults and adolescents, using a natural experiment design.
Deborah Moore, Blessing Nyakutsikwa, Thomas Allen, Emily Lam, Stephen Birch, M. Tickle, I. Pretty, T. Walsh   +7 more
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