| Each year,
the ADA's Council on Access, Prevention
and Interprofessional Relations,
in conjunction with the American Assn of State
and Territorial Dental Directors and the CDC, participates
in the National Fluoridation Awards Program. On
May 1, 2007, at the National Oral Health Conference, a number of states
and water systems were recognized for positive fluoridation activities
that occurred in 2006. Certificates of merit will be presented to the
state public health representative attending the conference.
Criteria for the fluoridation awards are noted
below:
Fifty-Year Awards: Recognition
to systems that reached fifty years of continuous
water fluoridation during 2006.
State Fluoridation Quality Awards:
Recognition to states that maintain the quality
of fluoridation during 2006 as determined by
the ability of fluoridating systems to conduct
monitoring and maintain optimal fluoride levels.
Community Fluoridation Initiative Awards:
Recognition to communities that adopted water
fluoridation during 2006.
Community Fluoridation Reaffirmation
Awards:
Recognition to communities that defeated initiatives
to discontinue community water fluoridation or
approved an initiative to maintain community
water fluoridation in 2006.
State Fluoridation Initiative Awards:
Recognition to the state that had the most
new systems fluoridating and/or to the state
that had the greatest increase in population
on fluoridation in 2006.
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