THE APPLICATION OF FLUORIDE IN PREVENTION OF CARIES

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Table of Contents for
June 2008 • Volume 24 • Number 57

THE APPLICATION OF FLUORIDE IN PREVENTION OF CARIES

Igić Marija,
Apostolović Mirjana,
Kostadinović Ljiljana,
Šurdilović Dušan,
Tričković-Janjić Olivera

MEDIcAL FAcULtY - cLINIc OF DENtIStRY - DEPARtMENt OF PEDIAtRIc DENtIStRY, NIS, SERBIA

...Abstract

Fluorides play a significant role in the prevention of caries. After longterm investigations conducted worldwide, their efficacy in preventing dental caries has been proved as well as their harmlessness to human health. The application of fluorides can be endogenic and exogenic; however, the best results in the sense of caries reduction can be obtained by the combination of these methods. Though being much criticized, the addition of fluoride to the public water supply is one of the most efficient measures of prevention applied in the world. Today, after more than half a century of fluorides’ application, it can be concluded that they strongly influenced a significant caries reduction in the developed countries of the world.

Key words: fluoride prophylaxis, prevention of caries

...Authors and Reprint Information

Correspondence:
Marija Igić, DDS, MSD
Department of Pediatric Dentistry
52 Bvld Dr Zoran Djindjic 52, 18000 Niš, Serbia
Phone +381 (0) 18 22 62 16
E-mail : igicn@bankerinter.net