Department of Global Oral Health
College of Dental Sciences
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre

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Affordability of fluoride toothpaste in low- and middle-income countries

Fluoride toothpaste is not equally affordable in high-, middle- and low-income countries. The estimates for the number of workdays needed to pay for one annual dose of toothpaste per person at the lowest price for the poorest 30% of the population ranged from 0.03 days in the United Kingdom to 10.75 days in Zambia.
In some countries, taxes can represent 50% of the price of toothpaste, so governments could cut these taxes and also work with manufacturers to produce lower cost toothpaste.