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...system will pay for itself many times over, Lawrence says. Every dollar spent on water fluoridation saves $35 of dental bills, and the state will save money by ultimately paying out less in dental insurance, he says...
...National Cancer Institute in Washington, D.C. has repeatedly refuted the NHF study, showing that it is statistically unsound and unscientific. More than ten separate government studies have shown conclusively that there is no link between fluoridation and cancer, Dr. William Bock, chief of Dental Disease Prevention Activity at the Atlanta Center for Disease Control, says...
Edward A. Sweeney, assistant dean for curriculum at the Harvard Dental School and chairman of the Massachusetts Committee for Fluoridation, also notes that the Yiamouyiannis study was wholly unscientific and did not account for other carcinogenic agents common to industrialized areas...
James H. Shaw, professor of Nutrition at the Dental School, supports Sweeney's argument, explaining that putting fluorine in the water is not introducing an additive, but merely readjusting existing fluorine levels to an optimum concentration...
...Paul F. Depaola, head of the department of Clinical Trials and Experiments at the Forsythe Dental Research Center, says that his studies have convincingly demonstrated a definite inverse correspondence between levels of water fluorides and tooth decay. Cavity incidence drops well over 60 per cent with increasing fluoride concentrations, he found...