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Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06510.
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Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06510.
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1Health and Social Care Institute,Teesside University,Middlesbrough TS1 3BA,UK.
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3Centre for Oral Health Research,School of Dental Sciences,Newcastle University,Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4BW,UK.
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3Centre for Oral Health Research,School of Dental Sciences,Newcastle University,Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4BW,UK.
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Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06510.
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Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06510.
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School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China.
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School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China.
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Department of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Chulalongkorn University.
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Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
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Institute of Translational Medicine, Zhangjiang Institute for Advanced Study, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Shanghai 200232, China.
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Department of Pediatric Dentistry, JSS Dental College and Hospital, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysore, Karnataka, India.
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Department of Pediatric Dentistry, JSS Dental College and Hospital, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysore, Karnataka, India.
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Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas, Piracicaba, Brazil.
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Research Center of Metallurgical Engineering Technology of Shaanxi Province, Xi'an 710055, China.
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Abundant information exists on fluoride intake and excretion in populations exposed to fluoridated water, but not fluoridated salt, where fluoride is eaten through a combination of foods and beverages...
There is a lack of research on the relationship between water fluoridation and pregnancy outcomes....
We assessed whether hypothetical interventions to reduce fluoride levels would improve birth outcomes in California....
We linked California birth records from 2000 to 2018 to annual average fluoride levels by community water system. Fluoride levels were collected from consumer confidence reports using publicly availab...
Fluoride levels ranged from 0 to...
We estimated that a reduction in water fluoride levels would modestly decrease birth weight and birth-weight-for-gestational-age...
Dental caries is a major public health problem in most industrialised countries, affecting 60% to 90% of school children. Community water fluoridation (CWF) is currently practised in about 25 countrie...
To evaluate the effects of initiation or cessation of CWF programmes for the prevention of dental caries. To evaluate the association of water fluoridation (artificial or natural) with dental fluorosi...
We searched CENTRAL, MEDLINE, Embase and four other databases up to 16 August 2023. We also searched two clinical trials registers and conducted backward citation searches....
We included populations of all ages. For our first objective (effects of initiation or cessation of CWF programmes on dental caries), we included prospective controlled studies comparing populations r...
We used standard methodological procedures expected by Cochrane. For our first objective, we included the following outcomes as change from baseline: decayed, missing or filled teeth ('dmft' for prima...
We included 157 studies. All used non-randomised designs. Given the inherent risks of bias in these designs, particularly related to management of confounding factors and blinding of outcome assessors...
Contemporary studies indicate that initiation of CWF may lead to a slightly greater reduction in dmft and may lead to a slightly greater increase in the proportion of caries-free children, but with sm...
This study aimed to assess the consistency of data regarding the provision of fluoridation in Brazilian municipalities with water supply systems....
Official data from the National Basic Sanitation Survey and the National Information System on Sanitation for 2017 were compared....
Out of 5,570 municipalities in Brazil, 4,546 (81.6%) had water supply systems. The agreement between data sources was 84%, with a Kappa of 0.668, indicating substantial agreement. However, the estimat...
To address these inconsistencies, it is essential to enhance information sources, ensuring more reliable data for health, sanitation authorities, and society at large....
Water fluoridation is a public health measure to reduce levels of dental caries in populations. A report of the recently completed CATFISH study has been published. This was the first UK evaluation of...
The effect of community water fluoridation on bone fragility and fracture has been inconclusive in the literature. The null hypothesis of this study was that no association was observed between water ...
Community fluoridation data were obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention while data on fracture rates were obtained from the PearlDiver database. The rate of fracture type for eac...
Positive correlations were found between the percentage of state water fluoridation and fracture rates for both bone forearm fracture (BBFFx) and femur fracture. Fluoride levels had positive correlati...
A higher level of water fluoridation was associated with higher rates of supracondylar humerus fracture and BBFFx in children aged 4 to 10 years. These findings do not imply causality, but they sugges...
To undertake an economic evaluation of community water fluoridation (CWF) in remote communities of the Northern Territory (NT)....
Dental caries experiences were compared between CWF and non-CWF communities before and after intervention. Costs and benefits of CWF are ascertained from the health sector perspective using water qual...
Remote Aboriginal population in the NT between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2020....
CWF....
Potential economic benefits were estimated by changes in caries scores valued at the NT average dental service costs....
Given the total 20-year life span of a fluoridation plant ($1.77 million), the net present benefit of introducing CWF in a typical community of 300-499 population was $3.79 million. For each $1 invest...
The economic benefits of expanding CWF in remote Aboriginal communities of NT outweigh the costs of installation, operation and maintenance of fluoridation plants over the lifespan of CWF infrastructu...
This study analyzed the relationships between the concentration of natural fluoride in public water supply and meteorological and hydrographic factors in a northeastern region of Brazil. This was a de...
Policy evaluation and guidance on fluoride use and sugar consumption in Latin American and Caribbean countries (LACC) may provide a scientific evidence basis for policymakers, dental professionals, ci...
Community water fluoridation (CWF) is a cost-effective intervention to reduce dental caries at population level. This Australian study used a difference-in-difference (DiD) analysis to measure dental ...
Oral health data obtained from the NT Department of Health contained 64 399 person-year observations from 2008 to 2020, totalling 24 546 children aged 1-17 years. Drinking water quality data for fluor...
Our results demonstrated that dental caries was significantly decreased for children in the treatment group following the implementation of CWF at a greater magnitude than both control groups for the ...
While dental caries disproportionately impacts Aboriginal children in remote and very remote NT, it is clear that CWF produces population-level reductions in overall dental caries for these population...