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Progress in Orthodontics, 2022 Background Fluoride has a major role in strengthening the structure of enamel against acids. Despite differences between caries and root resorption processes, both events inherently involve acidic dissolution of dental tissues.
Chelsea Mann +5 more
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Bioethical considerations about water fluoridation: a critical review.
Journal of Oral Research, 2016 Dental caries is one of the oral pathologies with greater burden of disease in the Chilean population. Fluoridation of drinking water has been used as a caries prevention strategy. However, its application as a public policy has been questioned since its
María Elisa Quinteros
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Inequalities in dental health: An ecological analysis of the interaction between the effects of water fluoridation and social deprivation on tooth decay in children living in England [PDF]
, 2015 Oral health in England has improved considerably in recent years but continues to show a strong inequalities gradient. This study was aimed at investigating variations in dental decay and elation to social deprivation and local water fluoridation.
Kennedy, Lynne, Tocque, Karen
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Tackling socially determined dental inequalities: ethical aspects of Childsmile, the national child oral health demonstration programme in Scotland [PDF]
, 2009 Many ethical issues are posed by public health interventions, including whether they ought to be aimed at improving health across society or reducing specific health inequalities, whether they should be targeted or universal and the issue of which ...
Conway, D., Macpherson, L., Shaw, D.
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Contemporary multilevel analysis of the effectiveness of water fluoridation in Australia
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2015 Aims: Water fluoridation was extended in Queensland, Australia, across 2009–2011. A research program was commenced to inform the rationale for and the outcome of this program, to estimate the effectiveness of water fluoridation in preventing caries and ...
Loc Do, A. John Spencer
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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. Dental disease can affect children\u27s growth and development as well as their ability to
Haines-Kolostian, Kelley
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Inequalities in public water supply fluoridation in Brazil: An ecological study
BMC Oral Health, 2008 Background The literature is scarce on the social and geographic inequalities in the access to and implementation of the fluoridation of public water supplies.
Moysés Simone T +4 more
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Brazilian Oral Research, 2023 Policy evaluation and guidance on fluoride use and sugar consumption in Latin American and Caribbean countries (LACC) may provide a scientific evidence basis for policymakers, dental professionals, civil society organizations and individuals committed to
Saul Martins PAIVA +12 more
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Journal of Oral Research, 2021 Fluoridation has been shown to be an effective measure against caries in children. The present study evaluates the cost-benefit of the fluoridated water program for the reduction of dental caries in 12-year-old children in the Biobío Region, the only ...
Camilo Ulloa +4 more
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Looking Back at Fluoridation [PDF]
, 2001 The author reviews the 50-year history of the debate over fluoridating drinking water as a public health ...
Mazur, Allan
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