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- Title
Changes in the percentage of 5-year-old children with no experience of decay in Dudley towns since the implementation of fluoridation schemes in 1987.
- Authors
Gray, M.M.; Davies-Slowik, J.
- Abstract
<bold>Objective: </bold>To compare changes in dental health between non-fluoridated Stourbridge and the towns of Dudley, Sedgeley and Coseley, Brierley Hill and Kingswinford, and Halesowen that were artificially fluoridated in 1987.<bold>Basic Research Design: </bold>BASCD co-ordinated studies of total samples of 5-year-old children.<bold>Clinical Settings: </bold>State funded primary schools in the Dudley Health Authority area.<bold>Participants: </bold>All 5-year-old children present on the day of examination in the years in which total population studies were conducted.<bold>Interventions: </bold>Drinking water fluoridation commenced in 1987.<bold>Main Outcome Measure: </bold>The percentage of children with no experience of decay in their primary dentition.<bold>Results: </bold>The percentage of children with no experience of decay in the fluoridated towns increased but remained the same in non-fluoridated Stourbridge.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>Drinking water fluoridation is associated with an increase in the percentage of 5-year-old children with no experience of tooth decay.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; TOOTH care &; hygiene; WATER fluoridation; CAVITY prevention; DENTAL caries
- Publication
British Dental Journal, 2001, Vol 190, Issue 1, p30
- ISSN
0007-0610
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1038/sj.bdj.4800875