STUDY FINDS HIGHER RATES OF CARIES WITHOUT WATER FLUORIDATION
A study in the journal Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology found a higher prevalence of caries in second-grade children in Calgary, Alberta, who were born after community water fluoridation was discontinued in 2011, when compared with children in Edmonton, where water fluoridation has been ongoing since 1967, ADA News reported. Researchers said the findings “point to the need for universal, publicly funded prevention activities — including, but not limited to, fluoridation.” The study supports other evidence showing the benefits of community water fluoridation, said Howard Pollick, B.D.S., a member of the National Fluoridation Advisory Committee at the ADA.
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