Topical Application of Fluoride and Fluoride Absorption

Largent, Edward J.; Moses, J.B.

doi:10.14219/jada.archive.1943.0253

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“…As an aside, one study (on a single subject) on the safety of 0.4% topical fluoride applications appeared not to have been discussed at the ADA CDT meetings between 1944 and 1947 [ 86 ].…”

Section: The Start Of the Fluoridated Agementioning

confidence: 99%

Private Interests and the Start of Fluoride-Supplemented High-Carbohydrate Nutritional Guidelines

Hujoel

2022

Nutrients

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Fluoride has no tangible health benefits other than preventing dental caries and there is a small difference between its minimum effective dose and its minimum toxic dose. Leading global organizations currently recommend fluoride supplementation because they recommend high-carbohydrate diets which can cause dental caries. Low-carbohydrate diets prevent dental caries making such fluoride recommendations largely unnecessary. A dental organization was among the first to initiate the public health recommendations which started fluoride-supplemented high-carbohydrate nutritional guidelines. This start required expert panels at this dental organization to reverse on three key scientific points between 1942 and 1949: (1) that topical fluoride had potential harms, (2) that dental caries was a marker for micronutrient deficiencies, and (3) that low-carbohydrate diets are to be recommended for dental caries prevention. Internal documents show that private interests motivated the events which led these expert panels to engage in pivotal scientific reversals. These private interests biased scientific processes and these reversals occurred largely in an absence of supporting evidence. It is concluded that private interests played a significant role in the start of public health endorsements of fluoride-supplemented high-carbohydrate nutritional guidelines.

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“…As an aside, one study (on a single subject) on the safety of 0.4% topical fluoride applications appeared not to have been discussed at the ADA CDT meetings between 1944 and 1947 [ 86 ].…”

Section: The Start Of the Fluoridated Agementioning

confidence: 99%