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Awareness Survey on Community Water Fluoridation by Region

치위생과학회지, 2022
Background: The purpose of this study is to investigate the pro-con of re-implementation by administrative areas and the difference in perception of community water fluoridation in implemented and non-implemented areas after the community water ...
Ye-Eun Joung, Min-Hee Kim, Hyo-Lim Kim, Ji-Ye Baek, Yun-Jeong Jang, Jae-Yi Choi, Sang-Hwan Oh   +6 more
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Salt fluoridation and oral health [PDF]

Acta Medica Academica, 2013
The aim of this paper is to make known the potential of fluoridated salt in community oral health programs, particularly in South Eastern Europe. Since 1922, the addition of iodine to salt has been successful in Switzerland. Goiter is virtually extinct.
Thomas M. Marthaler
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Surveillance of public water supply fluoridation and municipal indicators: an analysis in the state of Espirito Santo, Brazil

Revista Ambiente & Água, 2021
This study investigated the demographic, socioeconomic, and municipal health indicators related to the quality of water fluoridation. An ecological study was carried out in Espirito Santo state (ES), based on data from the Drinking Water Quality ...
Ariane Mendonça, Katrini Guidolini Martinelli, Carolina Dutra Degli Esposti, Lorrayne Belotti, Karina Tonini dos Santos Pacheco   +4 more
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Feasibility and costs of water fluoridation in remote Australian Aboriginal communities

BMC Public Health, 2007
Background Fluoridation of public water supplies remains the key potential strategy for prevention of dental caries. The water supplies of many remote Indigenous communities do not contain adequate levels of natural fluoride.
Ehsani Jonathon P, Bailie Ross
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Are fluoride levels in drinking water associated with hypothyroidism prevalence in England? A large observational study of GP practice data and fluoride levels in drinking water [PDF]

, 2015
Background While previous research has suggested that there is an association between fluoride ingestion and the incidence of hypothyroidism, few population level studies have been undertaken.
Bath, Chana, Cooper, D Lowery, Day, European Commission, Feltman, Flynn, Galletti, Gillam, Harrison, Jooste, Klein, Larsen, Lee, National Research Council (NRC), Peckham, S Peckham, S Spencer, Vanderpump, Vanderpump, Warren, Wilson   +22 more
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Maternal and fetal exposures to fluoride during mid-gestation among pregnant women in northern California

Environmental Health, 2020
Background Previous studies have shown a correlation between fluoride concentrations in urine and community water fluoride concentrations. However, there are no studies of the relationship between community water fluoridation, urine, serum, and amniotic ...
Dawud Abduweli Uyghurturk, Dana E. Goin, Esperanza Angeles Martinez-Mier, Tracey J. Woodruff, Pamela K. DenBesten   +4 more
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The costs and benefits of water fluoridation in NZ

BMC Oral Health, 2017
Background Implementing community water fluoridation involves costs, but these need to be considered against the likely benefits. We aimed to assess the cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness of water fluoridation in New Zealand (NZ) in terms of expenditure
David Moore, Matthew Poynton, Jonathan M. Broadbent, W. Murray Thomson   +3 more
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A Model for the Analysis of Caries Occurrence in Primary Molar Tooth Surfaces [PDF]

, 2012
Recently methods of caries quantification in the primary dentition have moved away from summary ‘whole mouth’ measures at the individual level to methods based on generalised linear modelling (GLM) approaches or survival analysis approaches. However, GLM
Baelum V, Beck J, Bower E, Burnside G, Burnside G, Fejerskov O, Gilthorpe M, Gilthorpe M, Gilthorpe M, Hannigan A, Hopcraft M, Hujoel P, J. Stephenson, James P, Jones C, Leroy R, Leroy R, Levine R, Lindsey J, Mancl L, Mejare I, Pitts N, Ramirez O, Riley J, Rodrigues C, Selwitz R, Stephenson J, Stephenson J, Tickle M, Vanobbergen J   +29 more
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Revisiting the Ethical Framework Governing Water Fluoridation and Food Fortification

Voices in Bioethics, 2020
Introduction Nutrition is one of the most important aspects of preventative health, and interventions such as food fortification and water fluoridation have been implemented widely to ensure that populations are meeting key micronutrient ...
Ahmad Shakeri, Howsikan Kugathasan
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External control of water fluoridation in a small municipality of northeast of Brazil

Revista de Odontologia da UNESP, 2020
Introduction Fluoridation of public water supply is an important measure in the prevention of dental caries. Objective This study aimed to monitor the fluoride (F) concentrations of a public water supply with water fluoridation program in a small ...
Maria Eliza Dantas BEZERRA, Thays Matias RIBEIRO, Franklin Delano Soares FORTE, Fábio Correia SAMPAIO, Jocianelle Maria Félix Fernandes NUNES   +4 more
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