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Marius Clore's avatar

Is that why so many European countries no longer fluoridate their water?

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LindaRosaRN's avatar

Your question isn't clear. I have given no reason why European countries don't fluoridate community water.

But Europe largely fluoridates salt to get a continual amount of fluoride ions in the saliva. Fluoridating water is not always practical; a lot of Europe uses well water. And there's fear-mongering; a lot of Europeans are anti-vax, as well.

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cdhp-fluoridation/Marthaler+(2011)+Salt+Fluoridation.pdf#:~:text=Europe%20and%20Latin%20America%20are%20currently%20the,with%20implemented%20successful%20programs%20of%20salt%20fluoridation.&text=Nowadays%20in%20eight%20European%20countries%20national%20legal,Republic%2C%20France%2C%20Germany%2C%20Greece%2C%20Netherlands%2C%20Spain%2C%20Switzerland.

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