Water Fluoridation and Dental Caries in U.S. Children and Adolescents
In: Journal of Dental Research, Jg. 97 (2018-06-14), S. 1122-1128
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Fluoridation of America’s drinking water was among the great public health achievements of the 20th century. Yet there is a paucity of studies from the past 3 decades investigating its dental health benefits in the U.S. population. This cross-sectional study sought to evaluate associations between availability of community water fluoridation (CWF) and dental caries experience in the U.S. child and adolescent population. County-level estimates of the percentage of population served by CWF (% CWF) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Water Fluoridation Reporting System were merged with dental examination data from 10 y of National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (1999 to 2004 and 2011 to 2014). Dental caries experience in the primary dentition (decayed and filled tooth surfaces [dfs]) was calculated for 7,000 children aged 2 to 8 y and in the permanent dentition (decayed, missing, and filled tooth surfaces [DMFS]) for 12,604 children and adolescents aged 6 to 17 y. Linear regression models estimated associations between % CWF and dental caries experience with adjustment for sociodemographic characteristics: age, sex, race/ethnicity, rural-urban location, head-of-household education, and period since last dental visit. Sensitivity analysis excluded counties fluoridated after 1998. In unadjusted analysis, caries experience in the primary dentition was lower in counties with ≥75% CWF (mean dfs = 3.3; 95% confidence limit [CL] = 2.8, 3.7) than in counties with
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Water Fluoridation and Dental Caries in U.S. Children and Adolescents
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Slade, Gary D. ; Sanders, Anne E. ; Grider, W.B. ; Maas, W.R. |
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Zeitschrift: | Journal of Dental Research, Jg. 97 (2018-06-14), S. 1122-1128 |
Veröffentlichung: | SAGE Publications, 2018 |
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ISSN: | 1544-0591 (print) ; 0022-0345 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1177/0022034518774331 |
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