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...

A recent decision by several Australian State politicians to support a parliamentary review of artificial water fluoridation has an intensified debate on the public health intervention. While there is a majority agreement among Australian dentists and other health professionals that adequate enamel fluoride is essential for dental health, the ethics of artificial fluoridation of public water su...

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...

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 ...

BACKGROUND Fluoridation of public water supplies remains the key potential strategy for prevention of dental caries. The water supplies of many remote Indigenous communities do not contain adequate levels of natural fluoride. The small and dispersed nature of communities presents challenges for the provision of fluoridation infrastructure and until recently smaller settlements were considered u...

OBJECTIVES Increasingly, support for water fluoridation has come under attack. We seek an explanation, focusing on the case of Waterloo, Ontario, where a 2010 referendum overturned its water fluoridation program. In particular, we test whether individuals perceive the risks of water fluoridation based not on 'hard' scientific evidence but on heuristics and cultural norms. METHODS A sample of ...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Water fluoridation is one of the methods for prevention of dental caries. The purpose of this study was to review water fluoridation in the world and in Iran, and its effectiveness in reported literature. METHODS: This paper is not a systematic review, but reviews the literature. “Water fluoridation” was used as a keyword for searching (electronic and hand search) in special...

Mortality in Anglesey from cancer (all sites), cancer of trachea, bronchus, and lung, cancer of stomach, and cancer of all other sites has been compared with mortality in England and Wales at two periods; 1949-53 (before fluoridation) and 1979-83 (after 20 years and more of fluoridation). No evidence has been found to support the hypothesis that water fluoridation affects cancer mortality.