What do dentists say about claims that water fluoridation harms general health?
If there were any sound reasons for believing that water fluoridation was generally harmful dentists would not support it. But there isn’t. The claims of water fluoridation’s opponents were condemned last year by the National Alliance for Equity in Dental Health (NAEDH). The President of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK commented (March 1998): The facts are that tooth decay remains a major public health problem in many parts of the UK. It is a preventable disease and children living in poverty are at particular risk. Fluoride in toothpaste and in water is safe and effective.
