Beneficial and risk effects of topic fluoride before and after 6 years old

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Editorial

This letter to editor would emphasise the position about topic fluoride into a choorte of children between 0-6 years of age after media messages, personal conviction by social media appeared in the last year about adverse fluoride effects in the topical application. After the preview letter to editor about the negative effects of water added with fluoride when had been highlighted that the hypothetical harmful effect of fluoride on intellectual quotient IQ of children is mainly an USA question because in Europe water is not fluoridated except for little areas of european’s countries. Topic fluoride is safe and is a most strategy to carious lesion development if used in the correct modalities. No adverse effect of topic fluoride is possible to adress for yuong adult (> 18 yo) and 6 years old children. In that situation is suggest from paediatric scientific academy and ministerial guide lines to use the maximun concentration of fluoride permitted from European law and World Health Organisation WHO indications into toothpaste and mouthrinse (1500 ppm) for at home for oral hygiene. For children of age lower than 6 years old attention must be payed also for topic fluoride because an excess and not precise measurement of plasmatic fluoride may expose the children to dental fluorosis disease. In particullary the age from 0-2 years old is the most critically because during this stage some of the most important permanent teeth such first molars and incisor perform the mineralisation of protein matrix secreted by ameloblast during amelogenisis. Dose (rise o pea size) and toothpaste fluoride concentration (1000 ppm) are suggested from European Accademy of Paediatric Dentistry EAPD into a policy document and is highligted supervison of parents during at home children oral hygiene to avoid accidental ingestion of toothpate [Toumba et al., 2019]. Parents, Dentist and Paediatric must be pay attention about fluoride concentration of human use potable water and water to prepare the children food whilst there’s not information about fluoride concentration into the child food. We just know that fish, tea and potatos peel are rich in fluoride. Avoid the final water rinse after toothbrush with fluoride toothpate is favourable as UK’s National Health Service suggest to extend the contact time between fluoride and the dental enamel in order to form Fluoroapatite F-Ap more acid resistent than Hydroxiapatite HAp. We are talking about split the excess of foam at the end of toothbrushing and is very unlikely that this procedures could increase the fluoride concentration in the children lower 6 years old and expose those to dental fluorosis risk [Parakaw et al., 2024].

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