OCR Article

After 65 years of water fluoridation in the US, "Oral disease, including dental caries, is the most common pediatric disease and a significant cause of morbidity in adulthood.1 As much as half of American children have caries. Reducing caries prevalence among children was one of the objectives defined in the Healthy People 2010 initiative.3 However, this objective is far from being achieved;1 recent epidemiological data suggest that caries prevalence is increasing in the US.2 Several reports of child deaths due to complications of oral disease were recorded in the last decade.2 Further, tooth decay has been identified as a silent epidemic."


OCR Article