نتایج جستجو برای: Water Fluoridation

تعداد نتایج: 550844  

2013
Niyi Awofeso

A recent decision by several Australian federal politicians to support a parliamentary review of artificial water fluoridation has an intensified debate on the public health intervention. While there is a majority agreement among Australian dentists and other health professionals that adequate enamel fluoride is essential for dental health, the ethics of artificial fluoridation of public water ...

Journal: :Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2007
Jason M Armfield

BACKGROUND The addition of the chemical fluorine to the water supply, called water fluoridation, reduces dental caries by making teeth more resistant to demineralisation and more likely to remineralise when initially decayed. This process has been implemented in more than 30 countries around the world, is cost-effective and has been shown to be efficacious in preventing decay across a person's ...

Journal: :Australian and New Zealand journal of public health 2007
W Kerry Mummery Mitchell Duncan Ryan Kift

OBJECTIVE To describe public opinion relating to the fluoridation of drinking water in a sample of the Queensland population. METHOD Data were collected by means of a computer-assisted telephone interview survey from a sample of the Queensland population. Descriptive statistics and logistical regression were used to examine associations between variables. RESULTS Seventy per cent of the tot...

2012
Niyi Awofeso

A recent decision by several Australian State politicians to support a parliamentary review of artificial water fluoridation has an intensified debate on the public health intervention. While there is a majority agreement among Australian dentists and other health professionals that adequate enamel fluoride is essential for dental health, the ethics of artificial fluoridation of public water su...

Journal: :European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry 2009
C Parnell H Whelton D O'Mullane

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...

Hamidreza Poureslami, Nathan Cochrane

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Water fluoridation is one of the methods for prevention of dental caries. The purpose of this study was to review water fluoridation in the world and in Iran, and its effectiveness in reported literature. METHODS: This paper is not a systematic review, but reviews the literature. “Water fluoridation” was used as a keyword for searching (electronic and hand search) in special...

Journal: :BMC Public Health 2007
Jonathon P Ehsani Ross Bailie

BACKGROUND Fluoridation of public water supplies remains the key potential strategy for prevention of dental caries. The water supplies of many remote Indigenous communities do not contain adequate levels of natural fluoride. The small and dispersed nature of communities presents challenges for the provision of fluoridation infrastructure and until recently smaller settlements were considered u...

2016
Myung-Soo Cho Kyu-Tae Han Sohee Park Ki Tae Moon Eun-Cheol Park

BACKGROUND There were some debates about the water fluoridation program in South Korea, even if the program had generally substantial effectiveness. Because the out-of-pocket expenditures for dental care were higher in South Korea than in other countries, an efficient solution was needed. Therefore, we examined the relationship between the implementation of water fluoridation and the utilizatio...

Journal: :Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique 2015
Andrea M L Perrella Simon J Kiss

OBJECTIVES Increasingly, support for water fluoridation has come under attack. We seek an explanation, focusing on the case of Waterloo, Ontario, where a 2010 referendum overturned its water fluoridation program. In particular, we test whether individuals perceive the risks of water fluoridation based not on 'hard' scientific evidence but on heuristics and cultural norms. METHODS A sample of ...

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