The York Review of Water Fluoridation – Key Points for the Busy Practitioner

From Volume 27, Issue 10, December 2000 | Pages 474-475

Authors

John Morris

DDS, MCDH, FDS(DPH), DDPH

Lecturer in Dental Public Health, Birmingham B4 6NN

Articles by John Morris

Deborah White

PhD, MCDH, DDPHRCS, BDS

Lecturer in Dental Public Health, School of Dentistry, Birmingham B4 6NN

Articles by Deborah White

Abstract

Since its serendipitous discovery by McKay at the turn of the century, the story of fluoride in drinking water has arguably been a case of scientific progress for public good, on the one hand, and energetic resistance by minority pressure groups, on the other. In other words, what Lord Jauncey famously referred to as hostility to fluoridation obscuring scientific judgement.1 In the middle there is arguably a less engaged general population2 and decision makers seeking to act in their best interests but concerned at the extreme views held by a vocal minority.

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