Tagged: teeth

Fluoridation helps protect adult teeth as well as children’s - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • May 16, 2017 •

• Brazil,
• dental health,
• fluoridation,
• fluoride,
• Health and Medicine,
• Science,
• Science and Society,
• teeth,
• water

Recent research reveals that community water fluoridation benefits adults as well as children. While research into the effects of fluoridation in adults started earlier than for children, early studies suffered from a lack of information on effects of socioeconomic status and other confounding factors.  Recent studies with adults have been more robust but there is still some confusion – especially since … Read More

Adults benefit from community water fluoridation as well as children – new research - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Jan 24, 2017 •

• adults,
• community water fluoridation,
• dental health,
• fluoridation,
• fluoride,
• Health and Medicine,
• Science,
• Science and Society,
• teeth,
• water

A new Australian study confirms that lifetime access to community water fluoridation (CWF) is associated with reduced tooth decay for adults – at least in the age groups 15 – 34 years and 35 – 44 years. The study is reported in the paper: Do et al., (2017). Effectiveness of water fluoridation in the prevention of dental caries across … Read More

Why are most people right handed? The answer may be in the mouths of our ancestors - Guest Work

Guest Work • Jan 12, 2017 •

• handed,
• handedness,
• Hominid evolution,
• laterality,
• left-handed,
• right-handed,
• teeth,
• tool use

By Caroline Spry, La Trobe University Roughly 90% of humans are right-handed and this is one of the traits that separates us from most other primates who don’t really show any overall preference for left or right handedness. It’s believed that handedness played an important role in human evolution, with a recent study on the earliest evidence … Read More

Fluoridation: New scientific review of fluoride and oral health - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Jan 11, 2017 •

• access,
• community water fluoridation,
• detal health,
• fluoride,
• Health and Medicine,
• review,
• Science,
• teeth,
• WHO

Want to get up to date on  research about community water fluoridation (CWF) and the effects of fluoride in dental health in general? Have a read of this new review. It’s published in a special issue of Community Dental Health devoted to the WHO approach to the prevention of dental caries through the use of fluoride. And is also … Read More

Dental health – it’s not all about fluoride - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Jul 26, 2016 •

• dental,
• fluoridation,
• Health and Medicine,
• oral hygiene,
• Science,
• Science and Society,
• teeth,
• tooth decay

Fluoride is not the only factor in oral health. But it is generally the only element in drinking water considered for its effect on our teeth. Drinking water fluoride benefits existing teeth by chemically reacting with the tooth surface. Involvement of fluoride in the apatite structure at the tooth surface helps prevent demineralisation, due to acid attack, and also encourages remineralisation – … Read More

Where do teeth come from? The stork theory - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • May 27, 2014 •

• fluoridation,
• fluoride,
• Sciblogs,
• teeth

Seems some prominent campaigners against fluoridation must advocate the stork theory, or something similar, to explain where  teeth come from. Apparently they do not understand that teeth develop in the jaw before eruption. Here’s a Twitter message from the “Girl … Continue reading → … Read More

Crazy science letter of the week part 9 - Griffin's Gadgets

Peter Griffin • Jun 24, 2010 •

• teeth,
• tooth decay,
• Water fluoridation

Water fluoridation is flavour of the month again for anti-science conspiracy theorists who consider it mass-medication or in the case of Rusty Kage, sorry Kane, mass poisoning. Anyone for a root canal? Rusty? Source: Taranaki Daily News The US Centre for Disease Control ranks fluoridation of water number 9 on its … Read More