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by bobthechef 2949 days ago
Why don't Europeans fluoridate?
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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/

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.