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by linedash 2949 days ago
No; it turned out that bad studies produce not very useful statistics.

Others in this thread have already indicated why this study doesn't help with much. Unfortunately it will just give the anti-fluoride crowd ammunition.
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bobthechef 2949 days ago
Why don't Europeans fluoridate?
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kurthr 2949 days ago
Because they have working public health systems?

Actually, I think it's a pretty personal and difficult question to answer that's unlikely to be uniform across Europe. Perhaps it's because they drink more tea and coffee which themselves have high fluoride levels (~3-5x fluoridated water levels in the US?

http://fluoridealert.org/issues/sources/tea/

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nabla9 2948 days ago
Because they ad fluoride to salt (or sometimes in milk).

In some places they remove naturally occurring fluoride from the water until it reaches what the WHO considers safe.

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