Oral Health and Dental Management

Abstract

Survey of drinking water flouride concentration with Constanta county localities

Dragos Totolici, Doru Petrovici, Doina Balaban, Albertine Leon, Constantin Lipsa

Drinking water is still the main fluoride source needed by the human body for cariopreventive mineralization
of dental enamel. Our survey has inspected 375 samples of drinking water in 200 localities
of the Constanta county, Romania. With 4 of the 81 localities provided with water supply network,
fluoride concentration surpasses 1 ppm, while in 21 localities, there are fountains the water of
which likewise surpasses the same concentration. Thus, the county map of fluoride is made evident,
which constitutes the starting point for devising prevention programs through fluoridation.
Measurements were carried out by two methods: titrimetric or with fluoride-selective electrode.