Abstract
Many patients who visit dental clinic for consulting answer they do not know whether their using contain fluoride or not when it is questioned. In this connection, we decided to check the package indications of commercially available dentifrices and a fact was found that many of them do not clearly indicate the contents of fluoride. The examination of this package indication was carried out by purchasing all types of dentifrices available from vicinal seven stores such as drugstores and others. Among 91 types of dentifrices purchased, 77 types were considered to be distributed popularly in the market and we counted 45 types (52%) among them are indicating the contents of fluoride on their ingredients labels. Furthermore, there were 27 types of fluoride containing dentifrices that carried the indication of fluoride contents besides the ingredients labels. Moreover, it was observed a tendency that the higher priced commodities by gram unit price do not have fluoride contents. The images of the commodity packages and the section of ingredients labels are shown here as information material.
