In this series, we explore the contentious findings surrounding fluoridation of the U.S. public water supply and answer the question of whether water fluoridation poses a risk and what we should do about it.
Previously: A cavity epidemic made water fluoridation seem like a public health miracle, but the research that followed provided a mixed picture of benefits and risks.
Research has revealed fluoride has both beneficial and harmful effects in people and animals but many of the more critical findings of potential harm are strongly debated.
One of the more contentious findings linked water fluoridation to cancer, a claim that has been largely discounted, though others haven’t been so easily forgotten….