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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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4067.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Community water fluoridation was first implemented sixty years ago and has been demonstrated by hundreds of studies to be safe, effective, economical and practical. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called fluoridation one of the ten great public health achievements of the 20th century. In spite of this more than a 100 million Americans do not live in fluoridated communities and fluoridation continues to be a controversy in some communities in spite of the overwhelming evidence. The national dental bill is over $ 74 billion a year and many Americans suffer unnecessarily because they do not have the health and economic benefits of this public health measure. This panel will discuss the public health and political aspects of fluoridation from different perspectives and how we can move this cost-effective public health measure ahead. The lessons learned from this panel can be utilized for other public health programs where evidence alone is not enough for community acceptance. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Describe the current status and continued need for fluoridation in the United States. 2. Describe the strength of the evidence in support of this public health measure. 3. Describe strategies to promote fluoridation on the national, state, and local level working with the community, government, foundations and organized dentistry. | |||
| Myron Allukian, DDS, MPH | |||
| The Science and continuous challenges of fluoridation: 60 years later Richard H. Carmona (Invited), MD | |||
Fluoridation: Challenges at the local and state level ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Leah M. Devlin, DDS, MPH | |||
| Fluoridation: Organized dentistry’s perspective Richard Haught, DDS | |||
| Fluoridation: The Foundation perspective Marion Standish, JD | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | APHA-Special Sessions | ||
| CE Credits: | Oral Health | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA