flouridated salt

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From Consumer Health Digest #06-24:

" The Pan American Health Organization is advocating that countries

that lack piped water supplies suitable for fluoridation consider

fortifying their salt to deliver fluoride. Studies have shown that

when most salt destined for human consumption in a country is

fluoridated, its effectiveness approximates that of water

fluoridation. [ S. and others. The effective use of fluorides in

public health. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 83:670-676,

2005]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/utils/lofref.fcgi?

PrId=3081 & uid=16211158 & db=pubmed & url=http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php

?script=sci_arttext & pid=S0042-96862005000900012 & lng=en & nrm=iso & tlng=en

PAHO's book, Promoting Oral Health. The Use of Salt Fluoridation to

Prevent Dental Caries, details how to plan, operate, monitor and

evaluate salt fluoridation programs.

http://publications.paho.org/english/news.cfm?ID=165 "

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Interesting...because ...my two kids just came from the dentists office. Been a year since their last visit because I was mad at that office. The last dental asst. was pushing fluoride to my kids when I wasn't in the room I found out afterwards. And, as happens, time passed, I intended to go to another dentist but didn't. Anyways, after a year of no visits,my kids came out today with zero cavities, again. The regular dental hygientist apologized for the last hygientist who was trying to sell the idea of fluoride to my kids. After the announcement of "no cavities", I in my witty/wise crackin' way said to my daughter with the hygientist sitting there, "Wow Annie, you've never had fluoride and you don't have any cavities ...you must be an anamoly" ; ) Michigan <truepatriot@...> wrote: From Consumer Health Digest #06-24:"The Pan American Health Organization is advocating that countries that lack piped water supplies suitable for fluoridation consider fortifying their salt to deliver fluoride. Studies have shown that when most salt destined for human consumption in a country is fluoridated, its effectiveness approximates that of water fluoridation. [ S. and others. The effective use of fluorides in public health. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 83:670-676, 2005] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/utils/lofref.fcgi?PrId=3081 & uid=16211158 & db=pubmed & url=http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext & pid=S0042-96862005000900012 & lng=en & nrm=iso & tlng=en PAHO's book, Promoting Oral Health. The Use of Salt Fluoridation to Prevent Dental Caries, details how to plan, operate, monitor and evaluate salt fluoridation programs. http://publications.paho.org/english/news.cfm?ID=165 " __________________________________________________