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- Liquid multi-vitamin supplement with iron and flouride 0.25 mg
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- Rx only
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Clinical Pharmacology:
It is well established that fluoridation of the water supply (1ppm fluoride) during the period of tooth development leads to a significant decrease in the incidence of dental caries. Hydroxyapatite is the principal crystal for all calcified tissue in the human body. The fluoride ion reacts with the hydroxyapatite in the tooth as it is formed to produce the more caries-resistant crystal, fluorapatite. Three stages of fluoride deposition in tooth enamel can be distinguished:1
1) Small amounts (reflecting the low levels of fluoride in tissue fluids) are incorporated into the enamel crystals while they are being formed.
2) After enamel has been laid down, fluoride deposition continues in the surface enamel. Diffusion of fluoride from the surface inward is apparently restricted.
3) After eruption, the surface enamel acquires fluoride from water, food, supplementary fluoride, and smaller amounts from saliva.
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- Indications and usage: Supplementation of the diet with nine essential vitamins and iron, and supplementation of the diet with fluoride for caries prophylaxis.
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- The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children up to age 16, in areas where drinking water contains less than optimal levels of fluoride, receive daily fluoride supplementation.
- Formula re: Contains
- Escavite LQ Multi-vitamin with Iron and Fluoride 0.25 mg provides fluoride in drop form for infants and young children from 6 months to 3 years of age in areas where the drinking water contains less than 0.3 ppm of fluoride and for children ages 3-6 years in areas where the drinking water contains 0.3 through 0.6 ppm of fluoride.2,3
Each 1.0 ml supplies sodium fluoride (0.25 mg fluoride per 1 mL) plus nine essential vitamins and iron.
Escavite LQ Multi-vitamin with Iron and Fluoride 0.25 mg supplies significant amounts of vitamins A,C,D,E, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, and iron to supplement the diet, and to help assure the deficiencies of these nutrients will not develop. Thus, in a single easy-to-use preparation, infants and children obtain nine essential vitamins and iron, plus fluoride.