MR G SMITH asserts that fluoride would be beneficial to children's teeth. Can he produce irrefutable proof of this?
Recent studies of the incidence of tooth decay in children show little or no difference between fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities.
Continental Europe has virtually no fluoridation; Holland has banned fluoridation; Germany, Denmark, Sweden stopped it and Portugal, Greece, Belgium and Austria long ago ended fluoridation. France, Italy and Norway never even tried fluoridation, rejecting it out of hand.
No one has proved that low-level dosing with fluoride is safe.
The one-part-per-million level enshrined in fluoridation propaganda was never scientifically established.
D BULLEN, Albany Road, Blackburn.
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