Fluid consumption in the preschool child, a method of obtaining optimum fluoride

PLEASE NOTE: This work is protected by copyright. Downloading is restricted to the BU community: please click Download and log in with a valid BU account to access. If you are the author of this work and would like to make it publicly available, please contact open-help@bu.edu.Thesis (M.Sc.D.)--Boston University, School of Graduate Dentistry (Pedodontics), 1976.Includes bibliography.The cornerstone of preventive dentistry in the United States is the wide acceptance and implementation of communal water fluoridation. Any community electing to fluoridate its communal water supply need only consult the standards for drinking water issued by the Public Health Service in order to determine the proper fluoride concentration. These standards are based on the large-scale epidemiological studies by Dean [superscript 1] in communities with naturally fluoridated water supplies and on the early fluoridation trials in many cities during the nineteen forties and fifties. The concentration of fluoride in artificially fluoridated communities will vary as determined by Galagan, [superscript 2] based on the mean maximum temperature over at least a five-year period. The recommended fluoride concentration will provide up to 65% reduction in dental caries and will produce the mildest form of enamel mottling in 10 percent of persons using the water. This mottling is of no public health significance. [TRUNCATED