• encourages the continued research on safe and effective fluoride products.
• supports the delegation of fluoride application to auxiliary dental personnel or other trained allied health professionals by prescription or order of a dentist after a comprehensive oral examination or by a physician after a dental screening has been performed.
• encourages all beverage and infant formula manufacturers to include fluoride concentration with the nutritional content on food labels.
• encourages dentists and other health care providers to educate parents that infant formula, if constituted with optimally fluoridated water, contains fluoride. Dentists and other health care providers, therefore, should assist parents in determining the infant’s fluoride exposure.
• recognizes that drinking fluoridated water and brushing with fluoridated toothpaste at least daily are perhaps the most effective method in reducing dental caries prevalence in children.