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Title

COMMUNITY WATER FLUORIDATION: ONE OF CDC'S "10 GREAT PUBLIC HEALTH ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY".

Authors

MURTHY, VIVEK H.

Abstract

The article discusses recommendation from U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) in 1962 for community water systems to add fluoride to drinking water to prevent tooth decay. Topics discussed include the need to update the 1962 PHS recommendations on fluoridation as Americans have access to more sources of fluoride and recommendations from a panel of physicians, dental professionals and epidemiologists that community water systems use a single concentration of 0.7mg/L of fluoride in drinking water.

Subjects

UNITED States; CAVITY prevention; COMMUNITY health services; FLUORIDES; FLUOROSIS; WATER; WATER fluoridation

Publication

Public Health Reports, 2015, Vol 130, Issue 4, p296

ISSN

0033-3549

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1177/003335491513000402