A NOTE ON THE DURATION OF CARIES INHIBITION PRODUCED BY FLUORIDE APPLICATIONS
B. G. BIBBY 1 and
S. S. TURESKY 1
1 Tufts College Dental School, Boston 15, Massachusetts
A group of 39 patients in which 1 quadrant of teeth had been treated 6 times during a 2-year period with a 0.1% sodium flouride solution were reexamined 3 years after the cessation of such treatments. The treated quadrants still showed approximately 36% less new decay than the untreated quadrants. During the period of suspended treatment the occurrence of new decay was approximately 30% less in the quadrants which had been treated 3 years previously.
Submitted on January 5, 1947
