Fluoride has been all over the news lately and people with PhDs can’t agree on if it should be in water or not. We wanted to get to the bottom of this controversy. Alex went on a mission to find out once and for all what the research actually says and what the off-camera experts have to say.
Sources:
- Fluoride & Dental Health
- The Role of Fluoride on Caries Prevention
- The Story of Fluoridation
- Water fluoridation for the prevention of dental caries
- Water fluoridation in Australia: A systematic review
- The Nutrition Source - Fluoride
- Salt fluoridation and oral health
- Systemic fluoride
- Prophylaxis of caries with fluoride for children under five years
- Fluoridation cessation and children’s dental caries: A 7‐year follow‐up evaluation of Grade 2 schoolchildren in Calgary and Edmonton, Canada
- 'Children are suffering' as Calgary's 60+ year fluoride debate drags on, bioethicist says
- Association Between Maternal Fluoride Exposure During Pregnancy and IQ Scores in Offspring in Canada
- The ACA and Fluoridation: The Power of Political Symbols
- Fluoride Exposure: Neurodevelopment and Cognition
- Regional and racial/ethnic inequalities in public drinking water fluoride concentrations across the US
- Early Childhood Exposures to Fluorides and Cognitive Neurodevelopment: A Population-Based Longitudinal Study
- Community Water Fluoridation and Intelligence: Prospective Study in New Zealand