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Water fluoridation in Australia: A systematic review [PDF]

, 2023
Water fluoridation is considered a safe and effective public health strategy to improve oral health. This review aimed to systematically summarize the available evidence of water fluoridation in Australia, focusing on the history, health impacts, cost ...
Gao, Jinlong, Jayasinghe, Nadeeka, Nanayakkara, Shanika, Ratnayake, Himali Erandathie, Senevirathna, Lalantha, Zhou, Xiaoyan   +5 more
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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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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Drinking Water Fluoridation in 12-year-old Children in the Biobío Region, Chile.

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, Catherine de la Puente, Fernando Rojas, Sofía Irigoyen, Raúl Flores-Cartes   +4 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, T. Allen, Emily Lam, Stephen Birch, M. Tickle, I. Pretty, T. Walsh   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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Coverage of fluoride data in water supply systems using the R software

Revista de Saúde Pública, 2022
OBJECTIVE To present a protocol to criticize data on fluoride monitoring in water with R software programming features, illustrating its application to describe data coverage, and fluoridation quality in 2015.
Camila de Moraes Paulino, Lorrayne Belotti, Moises Kim Zanotto de Azevedo, Paulo Frazão   +3 more
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Efficacy of the Indiana school water fluoridation program [PDF]

, 2002
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)In 1973 the state of Indiana initiated a program to fluoridate the water in rural school systems to a concentration of 4.0 ppm. Today, the optimal concentration is 3.5 ppm. When it was initiated,
Garabedian, Andrew Hrair, 1973-
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What are the benefits and risks of using return on investment to defend public health programs? [PDF]

, 2016
Return on investment (ROI) is an economic measure used to indicate how much economic benefit is derived from a program in relation to its costs. Interest in the use of ROI in public health has grown substantially over recent years.
Benhadj, Lynda, Benmarhnia, Tarik, Brousselle, Astrid   +2 more
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Systemic Effects (Risks) of Water Fluoridation.

Brazilian Dental Journal, 2019
Since the 1950s, the benefits and risks of fluoridated water use have been debated worldwide. In the past, it was considered that the systemically ingested fluoride would exert its primary preventive effect after being incorporated into the enamel as ...
J. Cury, A. P. Ricomini-Filho, Francine L Perecin Berti, Cinthia Pm Tabchoury   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Factors Affecting the Formation, Severity and Location of White Spot Lesions during Orthodontic Treatment with Fixed Appliances [PDF]

, 2014
Date of Acceptance: 24/02/2014 Copyright © Khalaf K. Published in the JOURNAL OF ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL RESEARCH (http://www.ejomr.org), 1 April 2014.
Khalaf, Khaled
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