Is Fluoride Potentially Neurotoxic?
August 19, 2019
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JAMA Pediatrics | Editorial
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By David C. Bellinger, PhD, MSc
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An Editorial by David C. Bellinger, PhD, MSc
Environmental epidemiology is a field replete with controversies, but the intensity of the debate inspired by the fluoridation of municipal water supplies to reduce dental caries is
perhaps unrivaled. Governments, as well as individuals, differ in their assessments of water fluoridation as public policy. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consider water fluoridation to be one of the top 10 public health achievements in the 20th centur