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Utilization of Orally Ingestible Systemic Sodium Fluoride: A Descriptive Analysis

    Basic Details
    Date Posted
    Status
    Complete
    Medical Product
    fluoride
    Description

    In this report, we describe counts of individuals with evidence of an orally ingestible systemic sodium fluoride medical product (either single-ingredient or sodium fluoride containing dietary supplement(s)) in the Sentinel Distributed Database (SDD) Medicaid dataset, and reported distribution of exposure codes among those individuals. We counted individuals with a dispensing, the number of days on which any dispensing occurred (i.e., episodes), and the number of dispensings.

    The study period includes data from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2021. We distributed this request to one Sentinel Data Partner on July 3, 2025.

    Additional Details
    FDA Center
    CDER
    Time Period
    January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2021
    Analysis Type
    Descriptive
    Population / Cohort
    All individuals
    Data Sources
    Sentinel Distributed Database (SDD)