Tag: Fluoridation
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Evaluation of water fluoridation scheme in Cumbria: the CATFISH prospective longitudinal cohort study.
Plain English summary Tooth decay is the most common disease of childhood, and tooth extraction due to decay is the main reason why children have a general anaesthetic in hospital. It is known that fluoride can prevent tooth decay and can be provided via the water. Research in the USA and UK in the 1940s/50s […]
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The fluoride content of placental tissue as related to the fluoride content of drinking water.
The following is available without a subscription: Current programs to fluoridate water supplies as a dental caries control measure have stimulated interest in the extent to which the fluoride might be retained by the various tissues of the body. Considerable evidence is available to show that much of the fluoride is excreted in the urine, […]
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Editorial: Water fluoridation in Scotland?
On 23 September 2021, the four UK Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) stated ‘there is strong scientific evidence that water fluoridation is an effective public health intervention for reducing the prevalence of tooth decay and improving dental health equality across the UK’.1 Water fluoridation started in the USA in 1945 and is currently practised in about […]
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The environmental impact of community caries prevention – part 3: water fluoridation.
Authors and Affiliations Dental Public Health, Dublin Dental Hospital, Trinity College Dublin, D02 F859, Ireland Brett Duane Paediatric Dentistry, Eastman Dental Institute, Rockefeller, 21 University Street, London, WC1E 6DE, UK Alexandra Lyne & Paul Ashley Environmental Health Service National Water Operational Unit, Health Service Executive, Community Services Centre, Western Road, Clonmel, County Tipperary, E91 HT96, Ireland References […]
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Power, dentistry and oral health inequities; an introduction.
[Special issue of Community Dental Health, to be disseminated at the ‘Power in Dentistry’ International Association for Dental Research symposium, July 2022, China] By L. M. Jamieson Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005, AUSTRALIA Oral health inequities at a global level persist. This is despite […]
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Water fluoridation and the quality of information available online.
Water-fluoridation stance Of the 55 web pages included in the scoring process, 28 (51%) were pro-fluoridation, 16 (29%) were neutral and 11 (20%) were anti-fluoridation. Analysis of the top 10 results returned by the most-used search term (‘fluoridation of water’) showed that of the top 43 results (seven were excluded from scoring), 20 (46.5%) were […]
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Survival analysis of caries incidence in African-American school-aged children.
Objectives To conduct an assessment of time-dependent covariates related to dental caries of the permanent dentition among a low socioeconomic status, understudied cohort of children, incorporating time-dependent covariates through the application of extended Cox proportional hazards modeling. Methods This study modeled the time to first cavitated dental caries in permanent teeth among school-aged children and […]
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LDN Chairs support extended fluoridation schemes.
The Local Dental Network (LDN) Chairs, who provide clinical leadership throughout England, have stated that they fully support the recently published position statements by the UK Chief Medical Officers1 around the potential for water fluoridation to address entrenched oral health inequality. Within the LDNs, clinicians working with patients see at first hand the levels of […]
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Work site access to fluoridated tap water and retail beverages: An assessment of the University of California, San Francisco campuses.
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Fluoride Revolution and Dental Caries: Evolution of Policies for Global Use.