Current Status of Fluoridation

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IN 1965 it will be twenty years since the first trials of water fluoridation were initiated in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Newburgh, New York. Since that time vast amounts of information have been collected upon the subject; fluoridation has been hailed as one of the most important public-health measures of the century, and it has also become a bitterly contested issue in the social and political arena. The utilization of fluoridation had advanced steadily until an estimated 46,000,000 Americans were drinking fluoridated water in January, 1964, and 7,000,000 more were living in communities with natural fluoride of optimum or greater . . .

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