Dietary Fluorides and Caries Prevention

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Abstract
A review of the role of dietary fluorides in the prevention of dental caries is presented. While the efficacy and safety of controlled water fluoridation in drinking water supplies has been thoroughly established over a period of 20 years, public and professional acceptance only now appears to be reaching a new phase in which the burden of the struggle relating to water fluoridation is falling on those who oppose the procedure. The administration of dietary fluoride to pregnant women for the control of dental caries in their offspring cannot be justified at the present time on the basis of available evidence. Fluoride in the form of tablets, lozenges, or liquid may be used for administration to children when fluoridated water is not available, but the use of fluoride-vitamin combinations in children has no scientific rationale.

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