... and offspring. Delivery in schools has also produced reductions of > 80%, and as poor as 20%, again possibly dependent on teacher vigilance. The pre-natal controversy re fluoride tablet benefits has only recently been tested under a true double-blind protocol and resulted in a non-significant effect...

... from Trois-Rivières. The prevalence of fluorosis was 45.6% and 58.0% in Trois-Rivières public and private schools, respectively, and 31.1% and 30.1% in Sherbrooke public and private schools, respectively. The use of fluoride tablets was significantly associated with fluorosis. This study showed...

...J.A. Weatherell; C. Robinson; J.P. Ralph; J.S. Best This paper describes an attempt to follow the migration of fluoride in the mouth following dissolution of a fluoride tablet, placed at one asymetrically situated position in the mouth, by measuring fluoride concentrations in saliva and by using...

...O. Fejerskov; K.W. Stephen; A. Richards; R. Speirs Forty-six deciduous teeth from caries-free children who had been exposed to systemic fluoride tablet treatment (0.5–1 mg F –– /day) from 3 months prenatally to 7 years of age were examined histologically and chemically. In addition to the systemic...

... in a fluoride tablet program (0.5 mg F –– per day) and 40 other children who had never received fluoride tablets. Comparison of the prevalence of enamel lesions between these two groups and between the ages at which children began to take the tablets revealed the ages at which there was an increased risk...

...) > 6 consumptions a day, including at least 1 ‘unsuitable’ snack with a high-sucrose component. Oral hygiene: (1) an adult brushed the child’s teeth at least once a day, (2) the child did this him/herself at least once a day or (3) seldom or never. Chewing fluoride tablets (1–2 tablets containing 0.25...

...D.B. Ferguson; K.W. Stephen Short Communications Caries Res. 14: 233-234 (1980) Plasma Alkaline Phosphatase Levels in Subjects Taking Fluoride Tablets D. B. Ferguson and K. IV. Stephen Department of Physiology, Medical School, University of Manchester, Manchester, and Department of Oral Medicine...

...A. Thylstrup; O. Fejerskov; C. Bruun; J. Kann In 1969, a caries preventive program was initiated in a part of Denmark where parents of infants were offered prescriptions for fluoride tablets for daily use. When requested new prescriptions were supplied free of charge by the County Dental Officer...

...D. McCall; K.W. Stephen; S.G. McNee Mixed salivary fluoride levels have been measured after 9 subjects sucked or slowly dissolved three different brands of 1 mg F –– fluoride tablets. Results indicate that for all preparations the maximum salivary F –– concentration was obtained when a tablet...