In:
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, Wiley, Vol. 2, No. 2 ( 1974-06), p. 104-113
Abstract:
abstract A 3‐year, unsupervised, toothbrushing study with a double‐blind, controlled design was conducted to evaluate the caries‐preventive effectiveness of a 2 % sodium monofluorophosphate dentifrice among 1,407 7‐ to 12‐year‐old children residing in an optimal, natural fluoride (= 1.2–1.4 parts/10 6 ) area of Denmark. With the initial caries lesion as a differential, two levels of clinical caries diagnosis were applied in the quantitative evaluation of the effects. A comparison of the monofluorophosphate dentifrice with a null control dentifrice indicated that its use at home, coupled with regular motivation by home visitors, conferred about a 30 % reduction in dental caries increment over a 3‐year period, beyond those anticariogenic benefits assumed to have been provided by the waterborne fluoride.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0301-5661
,
1600-0528
DOI:
10.1111/com.1974.2.issue-2
DOI:
10.1111/j.1600-0528.1974.tb01667.x
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wiley
Publication Date:
1974
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2027101-3
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