Research
Here you will find evidence based information on fluoride and all aspects of water fluoridation including: water fluoridation and infant formula, support for water fluoridation, cost and cost effectiveness of water fluoridation, water fluoridation and the environment, the dental benefits of water fluoridation, the effects on general health, dental health, health inequalities, and dental fluorosis.
Fluoridated Water: Safe and Effective for Preventing Tooth Decay
Q: What about opponents’ claim that fluoride causes cancer? 1. Research offers strong evidence that this claim is unsupported speculation. • A National Cancer Institute fact sheet reports: “Many studies, in both humans and animals, have shown no association between...
Critique of the review of ‘Water fluoridation for the prevention of dental caries’ published by the Cochrane Collaboration in 2015
The Cochrane Review on water fluoridation for the prevention of dental caries was published in 2015 and attracted considerable interest and comment, especially in countries with extensive water fluoridation programmes. The Review had two objectives: (i) to evaluate...
Effects of Fluoridated Water on Dental Caries in Australian Adults
In this nationally representative sample of Australian adults, caries-preventive effects of water fluoridation were at least as great in adults born before widespread implemen- tation of fluoridation as after widespread implementation of fluoridation.
Menu Reexamination of Hexafluorosilicate Hydrolysis by 19F NMR and pH Measurement
Abstract: The dissociation of hexafluorosilicate has been reinvestigated due to recent suggestions that fluorosilicate intermediates may be present in appreciable concentrations in drinking water. 19F NMR spectroscopy has been used to search for intermediates in the...
Measuring the short-term impact of fluoridation cessation on dental caries in Grade 2 children using tooth surface indices
Abstract – Objectives: To examine the short-term impact of fluoridation cessation on children’s caries experience measured by tooth surfaces. If there is an adverse short-term effect of cessation, it should be apparent when we focus on smooth tooth surfaces, where...
Health effects of water fluoridation: An evidence review 2015
The authors reviewed scientific evidence to inform Ireland Department of Health with regard to any impact, positive and or negative, on the general health of those exposed to community water fluoridation at the levels of 0.4-1.5 ppm. Based on the existing literature...
Water fluoridation and hypothyroidism results of this study need much more cautious interpretation
The biggest problem with this paper, however, is in the interpretation which puts far too much weight on such weak evidence. The approach used is notoriously unreliable as a way of identifying independent associations and the lack of a clearly established prior...
Warren Critique of Peckham
The authors concluded that fluoride exposure should be considered as a contributing factor to hypothyroidism and that the study results raised concerns about the validity of community water fluoridation as a safe public health measure.
FLUORIDATION OF DRINKING WATER AND SUBSEQUENT CANCER INCIDENCE AND MORTALITY
In response to concerns over the possible carcinogenicity of fluoride compounds added to drinking water raised by the results of a recent animal experiment, we evaluated 36 years of US.cancer mortality data and 15 years of cancer incidence data from two...
Dental Health of Primary School Children
In the 3 areas the proportion of children who received a dental examination varied; 77.5% (n = 825) for the fluoridated area, 80.1% (n = 781) for the pre-fluoridated area and 55.3% (n = 523) for the non-fluoridated area. The mean dmft was 1.40 for the fluoridated...