OBJECTIVE Tooth decay has been substantially reduced in New Zealand, and the difference in caries rates between fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas has narrowed. We investigated whether it is cost-effective to fluoridate water supplies that are now non-fluoridated. METHODS The net cost of fluoridation was based on the cost of fluoridating a water supply minus the averted costs of treating d...

Fluoridation has acquired the unenviable distinction of having become the most controversial issue in the history of dentistry. In one country after another throughout the world, wherever water supplies have been fluoridated or wherever fluoridation has even been considered, it has been vigorously opposed by increasing numbers of dentists, physicians, public health officials, biochemists, physi...

Research on the effects of fluorides on oral health has been in existence for almost a century. Following the observation that communities with naturally fluoridated drinking water had a lower incidence of tooth decay, many developed countries initiated artificial water fluoridation programmes, whereby fluoride is added to the reticulated water supply, such that it reaches approximately one par...

BACKGROUND The literature is scarce on the social and geographic inequalities in the access to and implementation of the fluoridation of public water supplies. This study adds knowledge to the Brazilian experience of the chronic privation of water and wastewater policies, access to potable water and fluoridation in the country. Thus, the aim of this study was to verify possible inequalities in ...

OBJECTIVES In the United States, 95 percent of teens and 85 percent of adults use the Internet. Two social media outlets, Facebook and Twitter, reach more than 150 billion users. This study describes anti-fluoridation activity and dominance on the Internet and social media, both of which are community water fluoridation (CWF) information sources. METHODS Monthly website traffic to major fluor...

We support lowering the levels of fluoride in the drinking water, but believe that 0.7ppm isn’t low enough. We believe that Connecticut residents, particularly children, will not be safe from overexposure to fluoride chemicals until the artificial fluoridation of the public water supply is prohibited; leaving only trace amounts of naturally occurring calcium fluoride in the groundwater, usually...