Trends in dental fluorosis and dental caries prevalences in Newburgh and Kingston, NY.

Kumar, Jayanth; Green, E L; Wallace, W.; Carnahan, T

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“…Indeed, fluorosis was almost absent with only 2.9% of the children examined showing any definite signs of the condition and a Dean's index of 0.1 [Driscoll et al, 1986]. Moreover, Leverett [1986] found a prevalence of 10.1% and Kumar et al [1989] a value of 9.4% and a Dean's score of 0.23. Present data on the prevalence and severity of dental fluorosis recorded in the high-fluoride area were lower than in most studies carried out in other countries.…”

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Caries and Fluorosis Prevalence in Communities with Different Concentrations of Fluoride in the Water

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The need to defluoridate and fluoridate the water supplies in areas with drinking water naturally containing above–optimal (≥2.5 mg/l) and suboptimal (≤0.3 mg/l) fluoride concentration and caries and fluorosis prevalence of 12–year–old schoolchildren were assessed in Italy. In the low–fluoride area, 48.4% children were caries–free (DMFT = 0) and the DMFT and DMFS were 1.5 and 2.6; in the high–fluoride area, 46.8% had a DMFT = 0 and the values of the indices were 1.4 and 1.6, respectively. Multiple logistic regression analysis showed a significant association in the caries–free status according to parents' employment status (OR = 1.2, 95% CI = 1.1–1.3) and children's sweets consumption, since children who consumed sweets at least once a day had an adjusted odds ratio of 1.8 (95% CI = 1.4–2.3) compared to those with a lower consumption. Multiple linear regression analysis showed that DMFT and DMFS were significantly higher in children with a lower socioeconomic status and in those who consumed sweets at least once a day, with the DMFS significantly associated also with the area of residence. DT and FT scores were higher in the high– and low–fluoride areas, respectively. No evidence of fluorosis was reported in 94.5 and 55.3% of children in the low– and high–fluoride areas, respectively. The Community Fluorosis Index (CFI) for all permanent teeth was significantly higher in the high–fluoride area, 0.8, than the value, 0.1, found in the low–fluoride community. Our results substantiate the difficulties in defining universal guidelines for the fluoridation or defluoridation of drinking water and the need for an epidemiological approach to the decision as to fluoridate and defluoridate the water supply.

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Caries and Fluorosis Prevalence in Communities with Different Concentrations of Fluoride in the Water

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“…1,2 Epidemiological studies have found differences in fluorosis prevalence among racial/ethnic groups that do not appear to be explained by levels of fluoride intake. [3][4] These provide indirect support for a possible genetic contribution to the etiology of dental fluorosis in humans.…”

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“…The determination of case status was based on fluorosis evaluation using Dean's method. Seventy-five of the 240 children were designated as cases based on the presence of very mild to severe fluorosis (grades [2][3][4][5]; 165 children were designated as controls based on categorizations of normal or questionable fluorosis (grades 0-1).…”

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Preliminary Evidence of an Association Between COL1A2 Polymorphisms and Dental Fluorosis in a Population with High Fluoride Exposure

Dawson

2010

Journal of Evidence Based Dental Practice

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“…Dean's index, however, has been adopted for dental fluorosis monitoring by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention [40], from which we had obtained our data. Dean's index places fluorosis affected teeth into six categories: normal, questionable, very mild, mild, moderate and severe [41]. The formula is as follows: N 4 and N 5 are number of subjects from the categories of normal, questionable, very mild, mild, moderate and severe dental fluorosis, respectively; N is the number of all subjects [42].…”

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Spatial distribution and temporal variation of high fluoride contents in groundwater and prevalence of fluorosis in humans in Yuanmou County, Southwest China

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Yan

Yang

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Journal of Hazardous Materials

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Trends in dental fluorosis and dental caries prevalences in Newburgh and Kingston, NY.

Abstract: A study was undertaken in New York State to determine the changes in dental fluorosis prevalence from 1955 to 1986 in fluoridated Newburgh and non-fluoridated Kingston children.

Cited by 84 publications

References 34 publications

Caries and Fluorosis Prevalence in Communities with Different Concentrations of Fluoride in the Water

Caries and Fluorosis Prevalence in Communities with Different Concentrations of Fluoride in the Water

Preliminary Evidence of an Association Between COL1A2 Polymorphisms and Dental Fluorosis in a Population with High Fluoride Exposure

Spatial distribution and temporal variation of high fluoride contents in groundwater and prevalence of fluorosis in humans in Yuanmou County, Southwest China

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