Community water fluoridation (CWF) receives huge support from credible mainstream public health professionals and experts in the field. International endorsement of water fluoridation comes from the World Health Organisation (WHO), United States’ Centers for DiseaseControl andPrevention, US SurgeonGeneral, Royal Society of New Zealand, and in Australia, the National Health and Medical Research ...

Recent questions about the effectiveness of water fluoridation have come from Diesendorf in Australia and Colquhoun in New Zealand. This report examines the arguments of both authors in detail and finds errors in each. Diesendorf employed an outdated view of how fluoride exerts its anticariogenic action and took a number of quotations out of context. Colquhoun's data are questionable. Neither a...

The cost of salt fluoridation in a given country depends primarily on the number of salt factories and on the technical level available in the country. Equipment required may cost U.S. dollars 400,000 for large plants producing at least 20,000 tons/year providing salt for populations of several millions. Reliable batch mixers have been built locally for U.S. dollars 3000 to U.S. dollars 10,000,...

Evidence of water fluoridation's effects on plants, animals, and humans is considered based on reviews by scientific groups and individual communities, including Fort Collins, CO, Port Angeles, WA, and Tacoma-Pierce County, WA. The potential for corrosion of pipes and the use of fluoridation chemicals, particularly fluorosilicic acid, are considered, as is the debate about whether fluoridation ...

This study investigated the demographic, socioeconomic, and municipal health indicators related to quality of water fluoridation. An ecological was carried out in Espirito Santo state (ES), based on data from Drinking Water Quality Surveillance Information, 2014 2017. The non-parametric Mann-Whitney Spearman tests were applied compare with availability information fluoridation, respectively. Fl...

OBJECTIVE To use the technique of meta-analysis to address the following research questions: Is water fluoridation associated with altered fracture risk at a population level and are the differences between studies consistent with confounding or chance variation between studies? METHOD The data sources utilised were Medline 1966-97, reviews and bibliographies. The search terms were fluoridati...