Journal article
The relative cost effectiveness of water fluoridation across communities: analysis of variations according to underlying caries levels.
Abstract
The effectiveness of water fluoridation as a means of reducing the prevalence of dental caries is well established in the dental literature. The case for water fluoridation however rests on the size of this reduction and the benefits that could be produced by using the same resources in other oral health or dental care programmes. In this paper the cost-effectiveness of water fluoridation is analysed for communities of different sizes and with …
Authors
Birch S
Journal
Community Dental Health, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 3–10
Publication Date
March 1990
ISSN
0265-539X