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Gingival recession in tooth types in high fluoride and low fluoride areas

1973; Wiley; Volume: 8; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1600-0765.1973.tb00764.x

1600-0765

John Murray,

Periodontal Regeneration and Treatments

The prevalence of gingival recession in individual teeth in 1,884 dentate adults, aged 15–65 years, continuously resident in the natural fluoride area of Hartlepool (1·5–2·0 ppm F) was compared with that found in 2,015 dentate adults from the low fluoride town of York (0.15–0.28 ppm F). In each tooth type, gingival recession increased steadily with age. A distinctive pattern of gingival recession was observed in each community. Mandibular incisors showed the highest prevalence of gingival recession, followed by maxillary first molars, mandibular first molars, premolars, maxillary second molars, mandibular second molars and canines. Maxillary incisors showed the lowest prevalence of gingival recession. There was an extremely high correlation between Hartlepool and York data, for each group of teeth. It was therefore concluded that fluoride in drinking water, at least up to 2 ppm F, has no effect on the pattern of gingival recession in adults.