The above two books by dental scientists have been received by this editor for review. The first is intended for use by dentists and dental students, as was the first edition. Many dental researchers have contributed to this updated survey of dental uses of fluoride. What is remarkable about Fluoride in Dentistry (2nd Edition), especially to anyone concerned with a more interdisciplinary approa...

Fluoride is an important element for mineralization of body tissues. The use of topical and systemic fluoride for oral health has resulted in major reductions in dental caries and its associated disability. Fluoridation of public water supplies has been endorsed by over 90 professional health organizations as the most effective dental public health measure in existence. Still, about half of the...

A telephone survey was carried out in 1994, in the Quebec City region, among 1006 people living in two municipalities where tap water is fluoridated and 1003 people living in two municipalities where there is no fluoridation. Knowledge of the main benefit associated with the use of fluoride (prevention of tooth decay) in drinking water was not different in fluorated versus non-fluoridated munic...

Data on caries increments and costs of prevention programs are presented as background information for participants in the workshop. Estimates of annual caries increments were derived from control groups in clinical trials, epidemiologic studies, and national surveys. Cost data were obtained from dental public health directors, program administrators, fluoridation engineers, and water plant ope...

Once central figures in American public health, waterworks engineers are no longer involved in many decisions made about the public water supplies. This paper argues that the profession's response to the early fluoridation movement of the 1940s and 1950s marked a change in the relationship between waterworks engineers and the other constitutive groups in public health and contributed to the dis...

Current Brazilian law regarding water fluoridation classification is dichotomous with respect to the risks of and benefits for oral diseases, and fluoride (F) concentrations less than 0.6 or above 0.8 mg F/L are considered outside the normal limits. Thus, the law does not consider that both caries and fluorosis are dependent on the dosage and duration of fluoride exposure because they are both ...

Wikipedia has been accused of being biased against challengers to scientific orthodoxy due efforts by editors having affinities with the Skeptics movement. Examination Wikipedia, including entries on fluoridation, origin AIDS and vaccination, reveals several characteristics typical a sensibility, definition scepticism, lists deviant ideas, derogatory labelling heterodox viewpoints, categories e...

OBJECTIVE To provide a brief commentary review of fluoride-containing toothpastes and mouthrinses with emphasis on their use at home. Toothpastes and mouthrinses are just two of many ways of providing fluoride for the prevention of dental caries. The first investigations into incorporating fluoride into toothpastes and mouthrinses were reported in the middle 1940s. Unlike water fluoridation (wh...

UNLABELLED The aim of this review is to give an overview of 55 years experience of milk fluoridation and draw conclusions about the applicability of the method. Fluoridated milk was first investigated in the early 1950s, almost simultaneously in Switzerland, the USA and Japan. Stimulated by the favourable results obtained from these early studies, the establishment of The Borrow Dental Milk Fou...

The case of Ryan v. Attorney General involved a challenge to the constitutional validity of the Health (Fluoridation of Water Supplies) Act, 1960, which provided the legislative basis for the fluoridation of the public water supply. While the importance of this case in the history of water fluoridation is well known, its contribution to constitutional law in this country may not be as widely ap...