Association Between Water Fluoridation and Income-Related Dental Caries of US Children and Adolescents.
January 28, 2019
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JAMA Pediatrics
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Sanders AE, Grider WB, Maas WR, Curiel JA, Slade GD.
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173(3):288–290.
This cohort study examines the incidence of dental caries in children and adolescents of varying income levels living in areas with vs without water fluoridation.
By age 11 years, an American child living in poverty has twice the level of dental caries (tooth decay) as one living at 3 times the poverty threshold.1 To achieve the Healthy People 2020 overarching goal of health equity, interventions must preferentially prevent disease at the lower end of the income distri