Water fluoridation is safe and effective

New international review supports community water fluoridation as an effective and safe dental health promotion measure.

Community water fluoridation (CWF) receives huge support from credible mainstream public health professionals and experts in the field. International endorsement of water fluoridation comes from the World Health Organisation (WHO), United States’ Centers for DiseaseControl andPrevention, US SurgeonGeneral, Royal Society of New Zealand, and in Australia, the National Health and Medical Research ...

Is Safe and Effective

18 This issue marks the beginning of a new section of the Journal, the “Bioethics and Law Forum.” As its first editor. I am pleased to see the level of interest in ethical and legal issues related to issues in infertility and can predict that there will be no shortage of interesting and provocative questions addressed in the “Forum” in the upcoming months. The articles appearing this month are ...

Is "safe effective glucose control" effective and safe?

Of note, the randomized controlled trials that showed a benefit from glucose control have tested only one and the same BGL target (4.4 to 6.1 mmol/l [80 to 110 mg/dl]) [2,3]. In addition, in these trials conventional insulin treatment was administered only when the BGL was >12 mmol/L (215 mg/dl), with insulin infusion gradually decreased and stopped when the BGL fell to <10 mmol/l (180 mg/dl). ...

Water fluoridation.

AIM This was to present a summary of the evidence from systematic reviews of the effectiveness and safety of water fluoridation. METHODS A search for relevant systematic reviews was conducted using the terms Fluoridation [Mesh] OR "water fluoridation" OR fluoridation OR (water AND fluoride) and was run from 01/01/2000 to 17/10/2008 in Pubmed, Embase, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Review...

Community Water Fluoridation: is it Still Worthwhile?