Relative Effects of Pre‐ and Posteruption Water Fluoride on Caries Experience of Permanent First Molars

Singh, Kiran A.; Spencer, A. John; Armfield, J.

doi:10.1111/j.1752-7325.2003.tb03469.x

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“…Water fluoridation is a community-based intervention that optimizes the level of fluoride in drinking water, resulting in preeruptive and posteruptive protection of the teeth. 36 Water fluoridation is a cost-effective means of preventing dental caries, with the lifetime cost per person equaling less than the cost of 1 dental restoration. 37,38 In short, fluoridated water is the cheapest and most effective way to deliver anticaries benefits to communities.…”

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Preventive Oral Health Intervention for Pediatricians

Morrow

Keels²,

Hale³

et al. 2008

Pediatrics

154

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This policy is a compilation of current concepts and scientific evidence required to understand and implement practice-based preventive oral health programs designed to improve oral health outcomes for all children and especially children at significant risk of dental decay. In addition, it reviews cariology and caries risk assessment and defines, through available evidence, appropriate recommendations for preventive oral health intervention by primary care pediatric practitioners. Pediatrics 2008;122:1387-1394

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Section: Dietary Counselingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preventive Oral Health Intervention for Pediatricians

Morrow

Keels²,

Hale³

et al. 2008

Pediatrics

154

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“…More detailed analysis of that study also revealed that pre-eruptive exposures to fluorides were most effective in preventing pit-and-fissure caries. Another study using retrospective fluoride exposure histories in exploring the pre-and posteruptive effects of fluoride has indicated that the preeruptive effect of fluoride on caries of permanent first molars of children is at least as important as the posteruptive effect [Singh et al, 2003;Singh and Spencer, 2004]. Also, a high exposure to fluoride, defined as higher percent lifetime exposure to fluoridated water, at tooth crown completion supplemented by a high exposure at the later stages of enamel maturation was found to have the strongest caries-preventive effect on carious lesions in pits and fissures [Singh et al, 2007].…”

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Association between Dental Caries and Fluorosis among South Australian Children

Spencer²,

Ha³

2009

Caries Res

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There is an ongoing debate whether early exposure to fluoride is necessary. The effect of early exposure to fluoride needs to be understood to inform the appropriate population oral health policy. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of systemic fluoride intake in early childhood on caries experience of the permanent dentition observed at the age of 8 or 9 years, controlling for the effects of topical exposures to fluoride at the age of 5 years. The fluorosis experience of children was used as a proxy indicator for early exposure to fluoride, while exposures to fluoride at the age of 5 years, which were collected retrospectively, were used to control for the topical effect on permanent caries experience of the same children. Caries experience recorded at 8 or 9 years of age of 571 children was compared between groups with or without fluorosis. Bivariate analysis and multivariate analysis controlling for exposures to fluoride at the age of 5 years and other potential contributory factors were conducted. A quarter of the sample had very mild to mild fluorosis, while 15% had caries experience in the permanent dentition. Multivariate models showed that children who did not have fluorosis had a higher prevalence and severity of caries compared to those with fluorosis after controlling for other factors. In conclusion, there was a significant negative association between fluorosis status and caries experience in the permanent dentition.

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“…Fluoride's anticariogenic benefits are clearly absorbed both pre-and posteruptively (Horowitz, 2003;Singh et al, 2003), in circum-Adelaide study populations and others. Fluorosis from excess fluoridation according to these references is unusual, and the wavy form of hypocalcification and mottling seen in fluorosis would not have been mistaken for LEH in the present examination.…”

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Decline in enamel hypoplasia in relation to fluoridation in Australians

Corruccini

Townsend

2003

American J Hum Biol

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Enamel hypoplasias are thought to represent calcification disruption indicative of metabolic stress during development. Hypoplasias of permanent maxillary central incisors and mandibular canines have undergone a notable reduction in frequency between Euro-Australian twins born around 1965 and those born ca. 1990. Even when scored very liberally these linear defects are 3.1-4.6 times as prevalent in the earlier Australians, and the discrepancy is proportionately greater among strictly scored defects. Likely correlates of this secular trend logically include reduced childhood fevers and clinical intervention to reduce circum-natal stresses acting on cotwins. However, fluoridation of metropolitan water has emerged as the statistically strongest hypoplasia-preventing factor.

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Relative Effects of Pre‐ and Posteruption Water Fluoride on Caries Experience of Permanent First Molars

Cited by 43 publications

References 20 publications

Preventive Oral Health Intervention for Pediatricians

Preventive Oral Health Intervention for Pediatricians

Association between Dental Caries and Fluorosis among South Australian Children

Decline in enamel hypoplasia in relation to fluoridation in Australians

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