Tag: Fluoridation
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Expert panel meeting on the health effects of fluoride in drinking water: Summary report.
Notes: While the pdf of this report is attached, the summary below is dated June 8-9, 2023 and modified on February 6, 2024. It is online at https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/environmental-workplace-health/reports-publications/water-quality/expert-panel-meeting-effects-fluoride-drinking-summary.html This report pertains to the Expert Panel for the February 6, 2024, report titled: Systematic review of epidemiological and toxicological evidence on health effects of fluoride in […]
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Systematic review of epidemiological and toxicological evidence on health effects of fluoride in drinking water.
Figure 1. Risk assessment strategy for fluoride health effects. Note: See the Health Canada Summary Report of the expert panel members of this study.
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How effective and cost-effective is water fluoridation for adults and adolescents? The LOTUS 10-year retrospective cohort study.
2 | METHODS The LOTUS study (fLuOridaTion for adUltS) was a retrospective cohort study using routinely collected National Health Service (NHS) dental treatment claims (FP17) data, submitted to the NHS Business Services Authority (NHS BSA), between 22nd November 2010 and 21st October 2020. Data were collected in a range of NHS primary dental care settings, […]
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Regional and racial/ethnic inequalities in public drinking water fluoride concentrations across the US.
References Articles referenced by this article (26) Water fluoridation for the prevention of dental caries. Iheozor-Ejiofor Z, Worthington HV, Walsh T, O’Malley L, Clarkson JE, Macey R, Alam R, Tugwell P, Welch V, Glenny AM Cochrane Database Syst Rev, (6):CD010856 2015 MED: 26092033 The effectiveness of community water fluoridation in the United States. Horowitz HS […]
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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 […]