Politicians should stop pandering to anti-fluoridation campaigners | David Robert Grimes

Leadership should be about making decisions based on the available evidence, especially on emotive issues such as fluoridation and vaccinationLast week, Public Health England urged more councils to consider adding fluoride to their water supplies. The case for this is clear: fluoridation improves dental health, decreases hospital admissions due to dental complications and thus saves far more money than it costs.Some have argued that fluoridation is a risk to health, but the report by public Health England looked at rates of hip fractures, kidney stones, cancers, Down's syndrome births and all-cause mortality and concluded that there is "no evidence of harm to health in fluoridated areas".
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