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Medical Hypotheses

Volume 27, Issue 2, October 1988, Pages 153-156
Medical Hypotheses

Fluoridation: A fifty-year-old accepted but unconfirmed hypothesis

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Abstract

The fifty-year-old fluoridation hypothesis has not been confirmed. Despite this, millions of people are still medicated with fluoride by government decree, on the assumption that this process has been proved to be entirely safe, and very efficacious in reducing dental caries. In fact, the scientific basis of fluoridation is very unsatisfactory. It is promoted, in the main, by emotion-based ‘endorsements’ rather than by scientifically-acceptable evidence.

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