I found that reading this article and many of the references cited gave me a good overview of the history and scope of the controversy surrounding water fluoridation. Overall, the article has a moderate majority of cited material that is pro-fluoridation. However, many references are anti-fluoridation. The tone of most of the article is that the quality of the supporting information on both sid...

Water fluoridation has been identified by CDC as one of 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century. The decline in the prevalence and severity of dental caries (tooth decay) in the United States during the past 60 years has been attributed largely to the increased use of fluoride. Community water fluoridation is an equitable and cost-effective method for delivering fluoride to the ...

J P Context: A recently updated Community Guide systematic review of the effectiveness of community water fluoridation once again found evidence that it reduces dental caries. Although community water fluoridation was found to save money in a 2002 Community Guide systematic review, the conclusion was based on studies conducted before 1995. Given the update to the effectiveness review, re-examin...

This paper encompasses information on the status of community and school water fluoridation in the U.S. and abroad, the status and action on State fluoridation .laws, an explanation and effect of the Safe Drinking Water Act, dental benefits, and identification and refutation of the three most common areas of allegations against fluoridation. Grand Rapids that same year to demonstrate that the d...

Water fluoridation remains a contentious issue in Canada and many communities choose not to fluoridate their water supply. As of 2007, 45.1% of the Canadian population had access to fluoridated water supplies. The main arguments for and against fluoridation have changed very little over the years, with supporters (including the World Health Organization and Health Canada) citing evidence that s...

Some people calf it the “Greatest Medical Fraud of the Twentieth Century”l (p. 17) and a “poison to the human body.”z Are they talking about laetnle? vitamin C? chemotherapy? No, it’s fluoridation, the addition of fluorides to drinking water, that evokes these strong reactions, Glen S.R. Walker, an electroplating specialist and chairman, Freedom From Fluoridation Federation of Australia, 1 and ...

OBJECTIVES In view of concerns expressed by South African local authorities the aim of this study was to develop a model to determine whether water fluoridation is economically viable to reduce dental caries in South Africa. METHODS Microsoft Excel software was used to develop a model to determine economic viability of water fluoridation for 17 water providers from all nine South African prov...

provide substantial benefits for the dental health of six million people, many of them living in the west midlands and the north east ofEngland.4 The arguments for extending fluoridation are not as overwhelming as they were in 1956. The prevalence of dental caries has fallen in both fluoridated and non-fluoridated districts,5 and the costs of fluoridation plant designed to meet modem operating ...

OBJECTIVES Water fluoridation is one of the most effective public health programs of the past century. However, efforts to extend water fluoridation into currently non-fluoridated areas are often thwarted. Despite considerable evidence regarding the effectiveness of water fluoridation at an individual level, published national community-based studies are rare. This study compared children's dec...

Systematic reviews produce conflicting conclusions regarding dental caries-preventive effects of water fluoridation in adults. The authors investigated the relationship using data from the nationally representative 2004-2006 Australian National Survey of Adult Oral Health. Effects were compared between the pre-fluoridation cohort born before 1960 (n = 2,270) and the cohort born between 1960 and...