Influence of Population Exposure to Fluoride on Oral Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2024) | Viewed by 2148
Special Issue Editor
Interests: population-based oral health policies; use of fluorides in public health strategies; dental services research; oral epidemiology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Population exposure to fluorides can be either beneficial or harmful to oral health. Therefore, its inclusion in both scientific and policy agendas driven by public health surveillance authorities around the world is paramount. Nearly 100 years ago, the Oakley City Women’s Civic League and McKay were crucial in changing a water source and stopping an endemic dental fluorosis. Two decades later, the benefits for dental caries from adjusting the concentration of fluoride in water was demonstrated. Since then, a consistent body of epidemiological evidence has been produced on the relationship between fluoride, caries and dental fluorosis, in which adjusted or naturally fluoridated water is considered the main independent variable for these outcomes. Other methods of population exposure to fluoride (e.g., fluoridated salt, milk and dentifrice) and comparisons in areas with multiple fluoride sources have also been investigated. Growing interest has been directed to investigate such methods as dependent variables showing inequalities in access and the coverage of public health interventions within and between countries. Investigating these population-based interventions as intersectoral public policies that depend on a virtuous arrangement of the political system; economic conditions and the health, sanitation, education and food systems of each country is a current and future task of health services and policy researchers in order to produce supporting information for spreading these upstream measures. This Special Issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) seeks to focus on the above-mentioned topics.
Prof. Dr. Paulo Frazão
Guest Editor
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