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Originally Posted by abaya
No fluoride in the water here in Iceland... and people have fantastic teeth here. But on the American air base (from the 1940s until it closed last year), they actually fluoridated the water, to make it more like "home." Unbelievable. Icelandic water kicks ass all on its own, and they had to go and add fluoride to it.  |
The mean dmft (2.9) of preschool children aged 3-7 years in the Murtomaa study and the mean decayed, extracted filled primary teeth (deft) in children aged 4 years of the 1993 national study (4.6) are higher than rates in the Nordic countries in general, where the mean dmft scores vary between 0.3 and 2.1 [9-13]. Iceland is an exception, with mean dmft scores of 2.4-4.1 for 4- to 6-year-olds [14,15]
Translation, Iceland has more cavities in children than the other Nordic countries.
Note, in young children social practices have a bigger influence than fluoridation, (such as baby bottle carries which are a problem in the US and England) and genetics too play a part. Iceland is so homogeneous genetically it makes the Swedes look diverse and I'd not be shocked to find out that Icelandic children have similar dmft scores if they move outside of Iceland.