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linedash | 7 years ago

No; it turned out that bad studies produce not very useful statistics.

Others in this thread have already indicated why this study doesn't help with much. Unfortunately it will just give the anti-fluoride crowd ammunition.

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bobthechef|7 years ago

Why don't Europeans fluoridate?

kurthr|7 years ago

Because they have working public health systems?

Actually, I think it's a pretty personal and difficult question to answer that's unlikely to be uniform across Europe. Perhaps it's because they drink more tea and coffee which themselves have high fluoride levels (~3-5x fluoridated water levels in the US?

http://fluoridealert.org/issues/sources/tea/

nabla9|7 years ago

Because they ad fluoride to salt (or sometimes in milk).

In some places they remove naturally occurring fluoride from the water until it reaches what the WHO considers safe.