I hate typing fluoride because I always want to spell it "flouride". It pisses me off.
Anyway, fl
uoride is quite simply too prevalent in foods, milk and juices to warrant inclusion in drinking water. Have a bowl of cereal with milk and a coke, and suddenly you've gotten 230% of your fluoride for the day. So why do we need it in our water?
Well the answer is simple. Outdated pseudoscience. From the UK's DoH, peer reviewed study of water fluoridation:
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We were unable to discover any reliable good-quality evidence in the fluoridation literature world-wide.
What evidence we found suggested that water fluoridation was likely to have a beneficial effect, but that the range could be anywhere from a substantial benefit to a slight disbenefit to children's teeth.
This beneficial effect comes at the expense of an increase in the prevalence of fluorosis (mottled teeth). The quality of this evidence was poor.
An association with water fluoride and other adverse effects such as cancer, bone fracture and Down's syndrome was not found. However, we felt that not enough was known because the quality of the evidence was poor.
The evidence about reducing inequalities in dental health was of poor quality, contradictory and unreliable.
Since the report was published in October 2000 there has been no other scientifically defensible review that would alter the findings of the York review. As emphasised in the report, only high-quality studies can fill in the gaps in knowledge about these and other aspects of fluoridation. Recourse to other evidence of a similar or lower level than that included in the York review, no matter how copious, cannot do this.
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I get all my fluoride from tea and organic milk.