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Community Dental Health

Cover Date
September 2009
Print ISSN
0265 539X
Electronic ISSN
Vol
26
Issue
3

Articles from this issue

TitlePage StartPage EndD.O.I.
Editorial - The contributions of Edward H. Angle to dental public health 130 131 10.1922/CDH_2570Peck02
The fractional urinary fluoride excretion of adults consuming naturally and artificially fluoridated water and the influence of water hardness: A randomized trial. 132 137 10.1922/CDH_2339Villa06
The prevalence and severity of dental fluorosis in the high and low altitude parts of Central Plateau, Nigeria 138 142 10.1922/CDH_2287Akosu05
Prevalence of enamel defects related to pre-, peri- and postnatal factors in a Brazilian population. 143 149 10.1922/CDH_2268Massoni07
Development of a psychometric scale to assess satisfaction with dental care among Sri Lankans 150 156 10.1922/CDH_2316Usgodaarachchi07
Consent of older children participating in BASCD coordinated dental epidemiology surveys in Wales. 157 161 10.1922/CDH_2296Monaghan05
Predicting relative need for urgent dental care 162 169 10.1922/CDH_2254Spencer08
A comparison of Personal Dental Service (PDS) and General Dental Service (GDS) patients in terms of reported interventions, oral health and dentists’ perceptions 170 176 10.1922/CDH_2259Hill07
Hopelessness, depression and oral health concerns reported by community dwelling older Australians 177 182 10.1922/CDH_2310Quine06
Higher-order exploratory factor analysis of the Dental Subscale of Children’s Fear Survey Schedule in a Taiwanese population. 183 187 10.1922/CDH_2322Chang05
Opportunities and challenges to promoting oral health in primary schools 188 192 10.1922/CDH_2289Gill05


The fractional urinary fluoride excretion of adults consuming naturally and artificially fluoridated water and the influence of water hardness: A randomized trial.


Article Price £10.00
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D.O.I.
10.1922/CDH_2339Villa06
Authors
  • A. Villa
  • L. Cabezas
  • M. Anabalón
  • A. Rugg-Gunn

Abstract

Aims To assess whether there was any significant difference in the average fractional urinary fluoride excretion (FUFE) values among adults consuming (NaF) fluoridated Ca-free water (reference water), naturally fluoridated hard water and an artificially (H2SiF6) fluoridated soft water. Design Sixty adult females (N=20 for each treatment) participated in this randomized, double-blind trial. The experimental design of this study provided an indirect estimation of the fluoride absorption in different types of water through the assessment of the fractional urinary fluoride excretion of volunteers. Results Average daily FUFE values (daily amount of fluoride excreted in urine/daily total fluoride intake) were not significantly different between the three treatments (Kruskal-Wallis; p = 0.62). The average 24-hour FUFE value (n=60) was 0.69; 95% C.I. 0.65-0.73. Conclusions The results of this study suggest that the absorption of fluoride is not affected by water hardness.

Key words: Fluoridated water, fluoride availability; fluoride urinary excretion; naturally and artificially fluoridated water.


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