Dental caries and fluorosis experience of 8-12-year-old children by early-life exposure to fluoride.

Background: It is important to evaluate concurrently the benefit for dental caries and the risk for dental fluorosis from early exposure to fluoride among children.

Aim: To evaluate associations of different levels of exposure to fluoride in early childhood with dental caries and dental fluorosis experience in school children.

Methods: A Child Dental Health Survey (CDHS) was conducted among school children in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) in 2007.