One in a million: the first community trial of water fluoridation.
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چکیده
This section looks back to some ground-breaking contributions to public health, reproducing them in their original form and adding a commentary on their significance from a modern-day perspective. In this issue, Michael A Lennon reviews the first trial of a fluoridated public water supply. Extracts of the report of the trial by Francis A Arnold et al. in 1956 are reproduced below by permission of the Association of Schools of Public Health.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Bulletin of the World Health Organization
دوره 84 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006