Tag: Africa
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Dental Fluorosis in Children from Aguascalientes, Mexico: A Persistent Public Health Problem.
1. Introduction Dental fluorosis and skeletal fluorosis are major public health concerns around the world. Regions with a high prevalence of such illnesses have been recently documented in Asia, particularly in China [1,2,3,4], India [5,6,7,8], Pakistan [9,10,11], and Sri Lanka [12,13,14]. In Africa, dental fluorosis is prevalent mainly in Sub-Saharan countries, including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, […]
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Efficacy of Calcium-Containing Eggshell Powder Supplementation on Urinary Fluoride and Fluorosis Symptoms in Women in the Ethiopian Rift Valley.
3.2. Baseline Dental Fluorosis The proportion of severe dental fluorosis among all women included in this trial was 10.3%; and the proportion of women with moderate dental fluorosis was 29.5% (30.8% in the intervention and 28.2% in the control groups). Overall, more than half, 57.7% (64.1% in the intervention and 51.3% in the control groups) […]
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Periodontal and dental conditions of a school population in a volcanic region of Tanzania with highly fluoridated community drinking water.
Introduction Dental fluorosis is endemic to the Rift Valley in Africa, especially in volcanic areas, and it has been attributed to the high fluoride content in daily drinking water. In some parts of Tanzania, and particularly in the Arusha region (close to a dormant strato volcano named Mount Meru), dental fluorosis is considered a health […]
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Skeletal fluorosis in a resettled refugee from Kakuma refugee camp.
“I suspected some contamination of the water of the much-frequented street pump in Broad Street, near the end of Cambridge Street”, said John Snow, about the contaminated water pump of the cholera outbreak of 1854, in London, UK.1 In September, 2015, a Somalian man aged 46 years presented to a refugee clinic within 1 month […]
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Biomonitoring of metals and trace elements in urine of central Ethiopian populations.
2.1. Study population A total of 386 individuals (10 to 50 years old) were enrolled from 27 rural communities during two sampling periods (June 2015 and May 2016) (Figure 1). Based on extensive prior work conducted to characterize the range of F– levels in community water sources in the Ethiopian Rift Valley region, communities covering […]
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Fluoride exposure from groundwater as reflected by urinary fluoride and children’s dental fluorosis in the Main Ethiopian Rift Valley.
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Dental fluorosis and oral health in the African Esophageal Cancer Corridor: Findings from the Kenya ESCCAPE case-control study and a pan-African perspective.
Author Information: Menya D. and Ayuo P. – School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya. Maina SK. and Kigen N. – Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH), Eldoret, Kenya. Kibosia C., Oduor M., Some F., Chumba D. – School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya. […]
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Dietary fluoride intake and associated skeletal and dental fluorosis in school age children in rural Ethiopian Rift Valley
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Fluoride content and intake by infants and toddlers from commercial infant formulae and cereals in Kenya.
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Endemic fluorosis: an analysis of needs and possibilities based on case studies in Kenya