Fluoretação das águas de abastecimento público no município de Araçatuba/SP

• Autor(a) principal: Moimaz, Suzely Adas Saliba [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Saliba, Orlando [UNESP], Garbin, Cléa Adas Saliba [UNESP], Garbin, Artênio José Insper [UNESP], Sumida, Dóris Hissako [UNESP], Chiba, Fernando Yamamoto [UNESP], Corrêa, Mariane Vieira [UNESP], Saliba, Nemre Adas [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://apcdaracatuba.com.br/revista/2013/05/v33n12013.htm; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/133394
• topic: Fluoridation; Water supply; Fluorine; Oral Health; Fluoretação; Abastecimento de água; Flúor; Saúde bucal

Fluoridation of public water supplies is one of the most important public health advances on Public Health in the twentieth century, because is a measure of wide populational coverage, effective in control of dental caries. Araçatuba city started the water fluoridation in 1972 and according to the average of the annual highest temperature had to keep the fluoride levels between 0.55 to 0.84 mgF/L. The purpose of this study was to analyze, monthly, the fluoride concentration on public water supply in the city of Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brazil, during 90 months. The water samples were collected monthly, between November 2004 and April 2012, on pre-established sites and analyzed, in duplicate, at the Laboratory of Research Nucleus for Public Health (NEPESCO) of the Public Health Graduate Program from, Araçatuba School of Dentistry - UNESP, using an ion analyzer attached to an electrode specific to fluoride. Of the total sample (n = 754), it was found that 67.2% had fluoride levels that offer the best combination of riskbenefit, 10.7% minimum benefit and low risk, 17.6% moderate risk and maximum benefit , 3.8% with insignificant benefit and risk, and only 0.5% with very high risk. It was observed that all collection sites showed most samples with fluoride levels that provide the maximum benefit, demonstrating the importance of vigilance and constant monitoring to ensure control of fluoride levels present in public water supplies.