Effect of Fluoride Dentifrice Usage during Infancy upon Enamel Mottling of the Permanent Teeth

Houwink, B; Wagg, B.J.

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“…Other studies have found that high tooth brushing frequencies [Pendrys et al, 1993], the amount of paste swallowed [Riordan, 1993] amount of paste used [Evans, 1991] were associated with the prevalence of fluorosis-like enamel defects. Many studies, however, have been unable to identify an association be tween fluoride ingestion from toothpastes and dental fluo rosis [Ripa, 1991], Particularly, Houwink and Wagg [1979] in a longitudinal study undertaken on the Isle of Lewis found no difference in the prevalence of dental fluorosis be tween children who used either a placebo dentifrice or one containing 2,500 ppm F during the period between birth and 4 years of age. Photographs provide an alternative method of recording enamel defects to clinical approaches which when standar dised, allow longitudinal monitoring.…”

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Dental Enamel Opacities in Three Groups with Varying Levels of Fluoride in Their Drinking Water

Ellwood

O'Mullane²

1995

Caries Res

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The aim of this study was to compare the prevalence of enamel defects in three groups with different levels of fluoride in their water supplies. These data, collected using a reproducible method, will form the baseline for ongoing studies on the prevalence of enamel defects. The overall prevalance of enamel defects was similar in all three groups. However, for individual categories of defects differences were found. The prevalence of demarcated opacities was highest in the group with the lowest level of fluoride in the drinking water. The prevalence of hypomineralised enamel defects (TF index) increased with increasing levels of fluoride in the drinking water. However, the number of teeth affected by these enamel defects and their severity did not follow the dose-response relationship expected from the fluoride levels in the drinking water. Associations between both the frequency of tooth brushing and the age tooth brushing was commenced and hypomineralised enamel defects were identified.

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Dental Enamel Opacities in Three Groups with Varying Levels of Fluoride in Their Drinking Water

Ellwood

O'Mullane²

1995

Caries Res

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“…Amounts of F from any other source were negligible. Houwink and Wagg (1979), the examiners in the follow-up study, found no hypoplasia or mottling which could be attributed to the ingestion of undesirable amounts of the high-dose monofluorophosphate toothpaste, which, due to the young age of the subjects, meant that more than negligible amounts of paste must have been swallowed. From this study, one may conclude that unsupervised use of F dentifrice under field conditions implies a low fluorosis risk.…”

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Feasibility of the Combined Use of Fluorides

König

1990

J Dent Res

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An increase in the number of methods of fluoride administration over and above traditional modes, while offering new caries-preventive possibilities, has also created problems. These cannot be solved by the purely scientific, objective approach, since emotional resistance to fluoride has increased in some countries in parallel to environmental pollution. In most of the highly developed countries, the decrease of caries prevalence has dramatically lowered the number of children in need of concentrated preventive programs. On the other hand, dental awareness and multiple sources of fluoride have increased the risk of chronic fluoride overdosage. Means to avoid the latter problem are discussed. In addition to community-delivered fluoridation programs, individual counseling and "tailor-made" preventive measures are of increasing importance.

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“…In a closed child population on the Island of Lewis. Houwink and Wagg [1979] have shown that a dentifrice with even more fluoride than the EC limit did not cause mottling in the younger siblings of the schoolchildren under trial. However, in combination with fluoride tablets, it is possible that objectionable mottling occurs .…”

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Role of Fluoride Toothpastes in a Caries-Preventive Strategy

Kg¹

1993

Caries Res

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While the clinical relevance of fluoride toothpastes per se is firmly established, the multifactorial processes involved in causation and prevention of caries render it difficult to define their exact role in an overall caries-preventive strategy. Therefore, an indirect pragmatic approach was chosen: the interpretation of secular trends in caries prevalence and other parameters is used to estimate the relative importance of this method of topical fluoride administration and to compare it with the contributions by other methods of prevention. All methods of caries prevention, with the exception of population-administered measures such as fluoridation of drinking water or domestic salt, can only work when applied regularly and conscientously. For this reason behavioural aspects such as compliance and the chances for widespread (if not universal) application have to be considered. There is indirect evidence that toothbrushing with fluoride toothpastes is a highly probable explanation for the decline of caries prevalence in developed countries since the 70s; moreover, toothbrushing, and the use of therapeutic dentrifices, is considered to meet spreading compliance because a ‘healthy mouth’ becomes more and more socially desirable in growing numbers of subpopulations.

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Effect of Fluoride Dentifrice Usage during Infancy upon Enamel Mottling of the Permanent Teeth

Cited by 26 publications

References 9 publications

Dental Enamel Opacities in Three Groups with Varying Levels of Fluoride in Their Drinking Water

Dental Enamel Opacities in Three Groups with Varying Levels of Fluoride in Their Drinking Water

Feasibility of the Combined Use of Fluorides

Role of Fluoride Toothpastes in a Caries-Preventive Strategy

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