Past association of fluoride vehicles with caries severity in Australian adolescents

Abstract

Clarification of future changes in caries severity depends upon the identification and quantification of factors associated with past changes in caries severity. The present study quantified the association of three fluoride vehicles with caries severity in Australian adolescents between 1965 and 1978. The three fluoride vehicles were fluoridated water supplies, fluoride supplements and fluoride containing dentifrice. All three fluoride vehicles were significantly associated with caries severity over the period 1965 to 1978. The direction of the associations were all negative, while the magnitude of the regression coefficients indicated that the most important association was with fluoridated water supplies, followed by fluoride supplements, then fluoride containing dentifrice.

Preventive benefit of access to fluoridated water for young adults

“…Place of residence and history of fluoridation have been used to determine the proportion of a child population group's lifetime exposure to fluoridated water . Alternatively, individual residential histories have been used to quantify the percent lifetime exposure to fluoridated water and its association with caries outcomes .…”

“…Place of residence and history of fluoridation have been used to determine the proportion of a child population group's lifetime exposure to fluoridated water . Alternatively, individual residential histories have been used to quantify the percent lifetime exposure to fluoridated water and its association with caries outcomes . This latter approach to calculating exposure to fluoridated water has been used in a large Australian study, the Child Fluoride Study , where individual percent lifetime exposure to water fluoridation was found to be associated with caries even after adjustment for several other factors.…”

Associations Between Exposure to Fluoridated Drinking Water and Dental Caries Experience among Children in Two Australian States

“…Relative differences in mean levels of caries experience ranged from 20 percent to 52 percent for DMF, and from 26 percent to 55 percent for dmf. In 1986, an eco-Iogical study that used survey findings from Australian surveys of adolescents conducted between 1965 and 1978 found that water fluoridation made the greatest contribution of several fluoride sources to declines in DMFT during that period (16).…”

¿Una intervención educativa en niños de doce años de Madrid modifica sus conocimientos y hábitos de higiene buco-dental?

“…• Uso actual o pasado de ortodoncia, analizando si un contacto directo con el odontólogo y la enfermedad buco-dental influye positivamente en el niño. • Hábitos de higiene bucodental (26): número de cepillados al día, cuidado de las encías sangrantes, uso de enjague bucal y dentríficos fluorados (27,28,29). • Hábitos nocivos: respiración bucal, chuparse el dedo, morderse las uñas, ausencia de cepillado de dientes inmediatamente posterior a la ingesta de azúcar.…”