Dental aesthetics and fluoridation: thematic typification of researches

Abstract

Water fluoridation is a public health tool that protects against dental caries, however its correlation with dental aesthetics is not known. Through an integrative review in the scientific publication Medline database, there were 115.856 articles when the term "Aesthetics" was searched. Specifying the searches, only 5 articles were found that related the impact of fluoridation on teeth. Despite the importance of analyzing possible contributions of water fluoridation to dental aesthetics, no specific article was found. The main hypothesis is the methodological difficulties to assess the correlation between water fluoridation and oral aesthetics.