UK - PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND
PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND — City public health director Dr. Paul Edmondson-Jones is pushing a study to determine if adding fluoride to public water supplies will improve the oral health of the city’s children, according to a February 5 article in The News.
The city scrapped plans in 2006 for a similar study due to opposition.
Edmondson-Jones, in calling for the study, is backing national health secretary Alan Johnson’s directive to introduce fluoridation of water supplies. Edmondson-Jones said in the article, “I’m an advocate of fluoridation. … There is conclusive evidence to show where there is natural or added fluoride in the water there is a reduction in oral health problems.”
Dental health in Portsmouth is worse than the national average, especially among the young, the article said.
The city scrapped plans in 2006 for a similar study due to opposition.
Edmondson-Jones, in calling for the study, is backing national health secretary Alan Johnson’s directive to introduce fluoridation of water supplies. Edmondson-Jones said in the article, “I’m an advocate of fluoridation. … There is conclusive evidence to show where there is natural or added fluoride in the water there is a reduction in oral health problems.”
Dental health in Portsmouth is worse than the national average, especially among the young, the article said.
posted by Bill at
9:43 AM
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All very well saying it will help children's dental health. Are you also going to insist that children drink water!! A lot of parents allow children to drink mainly fizzy drinks or fruit juice. Some only give their children bottled water to drink. We who drink mainly ordinary water are going to be medicated without our say-so if you add more fluroide. A lot of young children have cavities through sheer lack of effort in teaching children how to brush their teeth or even to bother at all, etc, etc.
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