Fluoride in dental practice

Ochyra Dorota, Ochyra Bartłomiej. Fluoride in dental practice. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(9):1217-1222 eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1423180 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/6047 https://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/sedno-webapp/works/878426 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part b item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eissn 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2018; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 02.08.2018. Revised: 18.08.2018. Accepted: 21.09.2018. Fluoride in dental practice Dorota Ochyra1 Bartłomiej Ochyra2 1Chair and Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Research Methodology, Medical University of Lublin, Poland 2Pharmacovigilance Department, Teva Pharmaceuticals Polska, Warsaw, Poland Corresponding author: Dorota Ochyra, e-mail: dorota.sikorska@hotmail.com ORCID ID Dorota Ochyra https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8076-5622 Bartłomiej Ochyra https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1832-5164 ABSTRACT Fluoride occurs naturally in our environment and we are exposed to it every day. In the right doses, it is very effective and helpful. Fluorine has many valuable functions, besides as enamel strengthening, it has bacteriostatic effect. However, in comparison to positive effects, fluoride can be toxic to the patients. The effect of fluoride on retention and prevention of caries is very significant, which has been proved in scientific studies