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Dietary fluoride supplements
Where water supplies contain less than 0.3 mg/L fluoride, the following are recommended:
• No fluoride tablets should be prescribed before the age of 6 months;
• Between 6 months and 3 years, prescribe 0.25 mg fluoride per day;
• Between 3 and 6 years 0.50 mg fluoride per day; and
• Between 6 and 16 years 1 mg fluoride per day.
For water supplies with 0.3 to 0.6 mg/L fluoride, the following are recommended:
• Fluoride drops or table
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Materials and Methods
The GUSTO cohort and study design
The GUSTO cohort is a mother-offspring cohort study that recruited over 1200 pregnant women aged 18–50 years delivering at the National University Hospital (NUH) and KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) between June 2009 and September 2010. The participants were of self-identified homogenous ethnic background representing the 3 major ethnicities of Singapore: Chinese, Malay and Indian. Subjects were followed very
