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Public opinions on community water fluoridation.

BACKGROUND Community water fluoridation (CWF) is currently experiencing social resistance in Canada. Petitions have been publicly registered, municipal plebiscites have occurred, and media attention is growing. There is now concern among policy leaders whether the practice is acceptable to Canadians. As a result, this study asks: What are public opinions on CWF? METHODS Data were collected in...

Water fluoridation.

AIM This was to present a summary of the evidence from systematic reviews of the effectiveness and safety of water fluoridation. METHODS A search for relevant systematic reviews was conducted using the terms Fluoridation [Mesh] OR "water fluoridation" OR fluoridation OR (water AND fluoride) and was run from 01/01/2000 to 17/10/2008 in Pubmed, Embase, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Review...

Fluoridation and public relations

Disczusion and conclusions In the official report on the studies (Ministry of Health, Scottish Office, Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1962) comparison is made between the findings in Great Britain and those in the Grand Rapids study in the United States (Arnold, Dean, Jay & Knutson 1956). After adjustment for changes in the control areas, the reduction among children aged 4 years was...

Fluoridation of Water

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