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Jason M. Armfield - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The dentist's role in promoting community Water Fluoridation: A call to action for dentists and educators
Journal of the American Dental Association (1939), 2013Co-Authors: Mads Melbye, Jason M. ArmfieldAbstract:Community Water Fluoridation is an important public health intervention that reduces oral health disparities and increases the health of the population. Promotion of its safety and effectiveness is critical to maintaining its widespread acceptance and ensuring its continued use. Dentists are a potentially important source of knowledge regarding the oral health benefits and safety of Water Fluoridation. However, few dentists regularly discuss fluorides, and Water Fluoridation in particular, with patients. The authors aim to describe and discuss the role and importance of dentists' promotion of public Water Fluoridation, barriers to dentists' involvement and some approaches that might influence dentists to promote Water Fluoridation more actively. Ongoing promotion of Fluoridation by dentists is a key factor in ensuring sustained municipal Water Fluoridation. However, current undergraduate dental curricula do not adequately prepare dentists for this role, and continuing dental education may be insufficient to change clinical practice. Although smoking-cessation literature can shed some light on how to proceed, changing dentists' practice behavior remains a largely unstudied topic. Dental associations are a key resource for dentists, providing information that can assist them in becoming advocates for Water Fluoridation.
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the dentist s role in promoting community Water Fluoridation a call to action for dentists and educators
Journal of the American Dental Association, 2013Co-Authors: Mads Melbye, Jason M. ArmfieldAbstract:Background and Overview Community Water Fluoridation is an important public health intervention that reduces oral health disparities and increases the health of the population. Promotion of its safety and effectiveness is critical to maintaining its widespread acceptance and ensuring its continued use. Dentists are a potentially important source of knowledge regarding the oral health benefits and safety of Water Fluoridation. However, few dentists regularly discuss fluorides, and Water Fluoridation in particular, with patients. The authors aim to describe and discuss the role and importance of dentists' promotion of public Water Fluoridation, barriers to dentists' involvement and some approaches that might influence dentists to promote Water Fluoridation more actively. Conclusions and Practice Implications Ongoing promotion of Fluoridation by dentists is a key factor in ensuring sustained municipal Water Fluoridation. However, current undergraduate dental curricula do not adequately prepare dentists for this role, and continuing dental education may be insufficient to change clinical practice. Although smoking-cessation literature can shed some light on how to proceed, changing dentists' practice behavior remains a largely unstudied topic. Dental associations are a key resource for dentists, providing information that can assist them in becoming advocates for Water Fluoridation.
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Community Water Fluoridation support and opposition in Australia.
Community dental health, 2011Co-Authors: Jason M. Armfield, Harry Francis AkersAbstract:To estimate the level of support for Water Fluoridation across Australia and examine the association between Water Fluoridation stance and demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, commitment to the stance, and opinions, beliefs and knowledge regarding Water Fluoridation. Cross-sectional questionnaire data were obtained from 510 Australian adults (response rate = 34%) in 2008. Data were weighted by age, gender and state and territory estimated resident population. Participants were asked to rate the strength of their support for or opposition to Water Fluoridation on a 7-point scale. Approximately 70% of survey respondents supported Water Fluoridation, 15.4% were opposed, and 14.5% were neutral. Those strongly opposed were most resistant to altering their opinion on the basis of new information or research. However, approximately 90% of people who were neutral, slightly supportive or moderately supportive would "maybe" or "definitely" change their stance. Fluoridation opposition was associated with lower income and educational attainment, more self-rated knowledge, and with beliefs about reduced benefits and greater harms. Opinions about who should be responsible for the introduction of Water Fluoridation and sources of information on Fluoridation varied significantly by Water Fluoridation opinion. While this survey lends further weight to the evidence confirming extensive support for Water Fluoridation in Australia, a large percentage of the public may be open to changing their stance if presented with new information or research. To maintain the widespread acceptance of Water Fluoridation, it is important that the public are provided with unbiased and accurate interpretations of the continual stream of research related to fluorides and Water Fluoridation.
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Australian opinions on Water Fluoridation: do Queenslanders believe differently?
Journal of investigative and clinical dentistry, 2010Co-Authors: H. F. Akers, Jason M. ArmfieldAbstract:To test whether residents of Queensland differ from residents elsewhere in Australia with respect to support for Water Fluoridation. Questionnaire data were obtained from an Australia-wide sample of 517 adults. The study occurred in 2008, shortly after the state government mandated Fluoridation across Queensland. There were no significant differences in Fluoridation support or in beliefs regarding the benefits and harms of Fluoridation between Queensland and non-Queensland residents. However, respondents from Queensland were more resistant to changing their minds regarding their Fluoridation stance, more distrusting of public health officials, and more supportive of decisions to introduce Fluoridation being made by the people via a referendum. After controlling for potentially confounding variables, Queenslanders demonstrated significantly more support for Water Fluoridation than non-Queenslanders. Perceived Queensland characteristics, which political scientists have used to explain aberrant political behavior or public policy, were not relevant to the longstanding pre-2009 disparity in Water Fluoridation coverage between Queensland and the rest of Australia. The findings of this investigation do not support the assumption that Queenslanders are more opposed to Fluoridation than residents elsewhere in Australia. © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.
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community effectiveness of public Water Fluoridation in reducing children s dental disease
Public Health Reports, 2010Co-Authors: Jason M. ArmfieldAbstract:Objectives.Water Fluoridation is one of the most effective public health programs of the past century. However, efforts to extend Water Fluoridation into currently non-fluoridated areas are often thwarted. Despite considerable evidence regarding the effectiveness of Water Fluoridation at an individual level, published national community-based studies are rare. This study compared children's decay experience and prevalence between areas with and without Water Fluoridation in Australia.Methods.Oral health data were obtained from clinical examinations of 128,990 5- to 15-year-old children attending for a regular visit with their respective Australian state or territory School Dental Service in 2002. Water Fluoridation status, residence remoteness, and socioeconomic status (SES) were obtained for each child's recorded residential postcode area.Results.Children from every age group had greater caries prevalence and more caries experience in areas with negligible fluoride concentrations in the Water (<0.3 parts...
Derek Richards - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Little high-quality research into public Water Fluoridation
Evidence-Based Dentistry, 2002Co-Authors: Derek RichardsAbstract:McDonagh M, Whiting P, Bradley M, Cooper J, Sutton A, Chestnutt I, et al. A Systematic Review of Public Water Fluoridation. York: Publications Office, NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD), University of York. ISBN 1 900640 16 3; 2000
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Water Fluoridation — controversy or not?
Evidence-Based Dentistry, 2002Co-Authors: Derek RichardsAbstract:Controversy — a prolonged argument or dispute, especially when conducted publicly [ Oxford English Dictionary ] In this issue we take a detailed look at the systematic review of Water Fluoridation published by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination,^1 a summary of which appeared in the British Medical Journal with additional material available on their website.^2
Mads Melbye - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the dentist s role in promoting community Water Fluoridation a call to action for dentists and educators
Journal of the American Dental Association, 2013Co-Authors: Mads Melbye, Jason M. ArmfieldAbstract:Background and Overview Community Water Fluoridation is an important public health intervention that reduces oral health disparities and increases the health of the population. Promotion of its safety and effectiveness is critical to maintaining its widespread acceptance and ensuring its continued use. Dentists are a potentially important source of knowledge regarding the oral health benefits and safety of Water Fluoridation. However, few dentists regularly discuss fluorides, and Water Fluoridation in particular, with patients. The authors aim to describe and discuss the role and importance of dentists' promotion of public Water Fluoridation, barriers to dentists' involvement and some approaches that might influence dentists to promote Water Fluoridation more actively. Conclusions and Practice Implications Ongoing promotion of Fluoridation by dentists is a key factor in ensuring sustained municipal Water Fluoridation. However, current undergraduate dental curricula do not adequately prepare dentists for this role, and continuing dental education may be insufficient to change clinical practice. Although smoking-cessation literature can shed some light on how to proceed, changing dentists' practice behavior remains a largely unstudied topic. Dental associations are a key resource for dentists, providing information that can assist them in becoming advocates for Water Fluoridation.
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The dentist's role in promoting community Water Fluoridation: A call to action for dentists and educators
Journal of the American Dental Association (1939), 2013Co-Authors: Mads Melbye, Jason M. ArmfieldAbstract:Community Water Fluoridation is an important public health intervention that reduces oral health disparities and increases the health of the population. Promotion of its safety and effectiveness is critical to maintaining its widespread acceptance and ensuring its continued use. Dentists are a potentially important source of knowledge regarding the oral health benefits and safety of Water Fluoridation. However, few dentists regularly discuss fluorides, and Water Fluoridation in particular, with patients. The authors aim to describe and discuss the role and importance of dentists' promotion of public Water Fluoridation, barriers to dentists' involvement and some approaches that might influence dentists to promote Water Fluoridation more actively. Ongoing promotion of Fluoridation by dentists is a key factor in ensuring sustained municipal Water Fluoridation. However, current undergraduate dental curricula do not adequately prepare dentists for this role, and continuing dental education may be insufficient to change clinical practice. Although smoking-cessation literature can shed some light on how to proceed, changing dentists' practice behavior remains a largely unstudied topic. Dental associations are a key resource for dentists, providing information that can assist them in becoming advocates for Water Fluoridation.
David W. Banting - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Water Fluoridation current effectiveness and dental fluorosis
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 1994Co-Authors: Donald W. Lewis, David W. BantingAbstract:Abstract – This paper reviewed the literature on the evidence for Water Fluoridation's effectiveness under current conditions of multiple fluoride use at recommended and at reduced concentrations, the extent of dental fluorosis at different fluoride concentrations, and the “halo” effect of Water Fluoridation. Using the relative difference in dental caries between communities with low and optimal Water fluoride as an indicator, the effectiveness of Water Fluoridation has decreased over time as the use of other fluorides has increased. Thus the effectiveness of Water Fluoridation alone cannot now be determined. Compared to the early Fluoridation studies, the differences in dental caries and fluorosis prevalence between fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas have markedly narrowed. Both the prevalence and severity of dental fluorosis have increased since 1945; however, the portion of fluorosis due to Water Fluoridation is now less (40%) than that attributed to other fluoride sources (60%). Research also suggests that the “halo” effect of community Water Fluoridation may result in a significantly greater intake of fluoride for people in non-fluoridated communities. This review recognized that since Water Fluoridation has unique advantages from the perspectives of distribution, equity, compliance and cost-effectiveness over other fluoride technologies, it remains as the fundamental base for caries prevention. The increasingly greater contribution that other sources of fluoride make to dental fluorosis suggests that these sources of fluoride, many of which arc used on an elective basis, should be more closely examined for needed changes.
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Water Fluoridation: current effectiveness and dental fluorosis.
Community dentistry and oral epidemiology, 1994Co-Authors: Donald W. Lewis, David W. BantingAbstract:This paper reviewed the literature on the evidence for Water Fluoridation's effectiveness under current conditions of multiple fluoride use at recommended and at reduced concentrations, the extent of dental fluorosis at different fluoride concentrations, and the "halo" effect of Water Fluoridation. Using the relative difference in dental caries between communities with low and optimal Water fluoride as an indicator, the effectiveness of Water Fluoridation has decreased over time as the use of other fluorides has increased. Thus the effectiveness of Water Fluoridation alone cannot now be determined. Compared to the early Fluoridation studies, the differences in dental caries and fluorosis prevalence between fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas have markedly narrowed. Both the prevalence and severity of dental fluorosis have increased since 1945; however, the portion of fluorosis due to Water Fluoridation is now less (40%) than that attributed to other fluoride sources (60%). Research also suggests that the "halo" effect of community Water Fluoridation may result in a significantly greater intake of fluoride for people in non-fluoridated communities. This review recognized that since Water Fluoridation has unique advantages from the perspectives of distribution, equity, compliance and cost-effectiveness over other fluoride technologies, it remains as the fundamental base for caries prevention. The increasingly greater contribution that other sources of fluoride make to dental fluorosis suggests that these sources of fluoride, many of which are used on an elective basis, should be more closely examined for needed changes.
Christian Fortin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the economic value of quebec s Water Fluoridation program
Journal of Public Health, 2013Co-Authors: Eric Tchouaket, Astrid Brousselle, Alvine K Fansi, Pierre Alexandre Dionne, Elise Bertrand, Christian FortinAbstract:Aim Dental caries is a major public health problem worldwide, with very significant deleterious consequences for many people. The available data are alarming in Canada and the province of Quebec. The Water Fluoridation program has been shown to be the most effective means of preventing caries and reducing oral health inequalities. This article analyzes the cost-effectiveness of Quebec’s Water Fluoridation program to provide decision-makers with economic information for assessing its usefulness.
