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Promoting Oral Health
The Use of Salt Fluoridation to Prevent Dental Caries
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Also published in Spanish (2005), as part of the Paltex series, with the title Promoción de la Salud Bucodental: La fluoruración de la sal para prevenir la caries dental
PAHO HQ Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Pan American Health Organization Promoting oral health: the use of salt fluoridation to prevent dental caries. Washington, D.C: PAHO, © 2005. (Scientific and Technical Publication No. 615) ISBN 92 75 11615 6 I. Title II. Series 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
FLUORIDATION DENTAL CARIES — prevention & control ORAL HEALTH CARIOSTATIC AGENTS HEALTH PLANS AND PROGRAMMES
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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History and Success Stories 1. Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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2. Early Experiments, 1955–1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Evidence Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .