Successful fluoride plebiscite in the township of Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia

Sivaneswaran, Shanti; Chong, Gabriel Tse Feng; Blinkhorn, Anthony

doi:10.1111/j.1752-7325.2009.00154.x

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“…10 At the community level, public knowledge of oral diseases has been shown to have a direct impact on the adoption of public health outcomes, such as water fluoridation. 10,11 …”

Section: The Public’s Knowledge and Support Of Water Fluoridationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…33 More recently, dentists’ promotion of water fluoridation was successfully carried out as part of a joint campaign effort with the public health department and the media in New South Wales, Australia; in that effort, one prominent local dentist engaged in grassroots efforts to help ensure the successful passage of a municipal water fluoridation plebiscite. 11 Such studies highlight the fact that dentists can and do play important roles during political campaigns by using their good reputations in the community and their ability to organize and lead campaign efforts to educate and persuade the public to vote in favor of water fluoridation. More information is needed to determine the role that dental organizations can and do play in promoting water fluoridation to the public.…”

Section: Dentists’ Effectiveness In Promoting Water Fluoridationmentioning

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“…11 Individual dentists and dental organizations (such as dental societies) can provide this assistance. They should emphasize the consistent research findings about the effectiveness of water fluoridation in preventing dental caries.…”

Section: Water Fluoridation Messagementioning

confidence: 99%

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The dentist's role in promoting community water fluoridation

Melbye¹,

Armfield²

2013

The Journal of the American Dental Association

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Background and Overview Community water fluoridation is an important public health intervention that reduces oral health disparities and increases the health of the population. Promotion of its safety and effectiveness is critical to maintaining its widespread acceptance and ensuring its continued use. Dentists are a potentially important source of knowledge regarding the oral health benefits and safety of water fluoridation. However, few dentists regularly discuss fluorides, and water fluoridation in particular, with patients. The authors aim to describe and discuss the role and importance of dentists’ promotion of public water fluoridation, barriers to dentists’ involvement and some approaches that might influence dentists to promote water fluoridation more actively. Conclusions and Practice Implications Ongoing promotion of fluoridation by dentists is a key factor in ensuring sustained municipal water fluoridation. However, current undergraduate dental curricula do not adequately prepare dentists for this role, and continuing dental education may be insufficient to change clinical practice. Although smoking-cessation literature can shed some light on how to proceed, changing dentists’ practice behavior remains a largely unstudied topic. Dental associations are a key resource for dentists, providing information that can assist them in becoming advocates for water fluoridation.

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“…10 At the community level, public knowledge of oral diseases has been shown to have a direct impact on the adoption of public health outcomes, such as water fluoridation. 10,11 …”

Section: The Public’s Knowledge and Support Of Water Fluoridationmentioning

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Section: Dentists’ Effectiveness In Promoting Water Fluoridationmentioning

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The dentist's role in promoting community water fluoridation

Melbye¹,

Armfield²

2013

The Journal of the American Dental Association

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“…The children in the sample from Gosford City in 2012 would have had almost a lifetime exposure to fluoridated water, so the similarity in dmft scores with participants living in the well-established fluoridated area could be expected. Such a finding is of value to councils in other parts of NSW without fluoridation as we have shown that new schemes will bring oral health benefits that are tangible within a short time frame, and counter the views of anti-fluoridationists 16 who argue that water fluoridation is no longer necessary 17 .…”

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A 4-year assessment of a new water-fluoridation scheme in New South Wales, Australia

Blinkhorn

Byun

Mehta

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International Dental Journal

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“…The strategies used to engage and mobilize communities included the role of information, communication, community consultation and participation. It is beyond the scope of this article to describe these strategies, but they have been described elsewhere .…”

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The revival of water fluoridation in the state of New South Wales, Australia, in the 21st century

Sivaneswaran

2012

Comm Dent Oral Epid

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The State of New South Wales (NSW) in Australia has over half a century of experience with water fluoridation. Yass was the first town to be fluoridated in 1956 and Sydney in 1968, and by the late 1970s, approximately 90% of NSW was fluoridated. However, since then, there have been no new fluoridation schemes. In NSW under the Fluoridation of Public Water Supplies Act 1957, the decision to fluoridate rests with local government authorities (councils). Since 2004, the NSW Health Department has been proactive in promoting and extending water fluoridation to unfluoridated rural communities in an attempt to reduce oral health inequalities. This has resulted in 20 councils implementing fluoridation, increasing population coverage of water fluoridation from 90% in 2004 to 96% in 2012. When the remaining 16 councils that have been gazetted to fluoridate implement fluoridation, approximately 98% of NSW residents will have access to fluoridated water. This article provides an overview of the framework used to extend water fluoridation to many rural communities in New South Wales in the 21st century.

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Successful fluoride plebiscite in the township of Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia

Abstract: The council resolved to implement water fluoridation and the residents received fluoridated water in January 2005.

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The dentist's role in promoting community water fluoridation

The dentist's role in promoting community water fluoridation

A 4-year assessment of a new water-fluoridation scheme in New South Wales, Australia

The revival of water fluoridation in the state of New South Wales, Australia, in the 21st century

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