Fluoride Make Tooth Gooder!

The city of Calgary has recently started adding fluoride to its tap water again, so let's take a look and see if they've really got the science on their side.

Links:

Fluoride Action Network (US)
https://fluoridealert.org/

Fluoride Free Canada
https://www.fluoridefreecanada.ca/

Fluoride Free Alliance UK
https://www.ffauk.org/

Fluoride Free Australia
https://fluoridefreeaustralia.org/

Fluoride Free New Zealand
https://fluoridefree.org.nz/

CTV - Fluoride returns to Calgary's taps in 1 month - May 29, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsHOTgmi20k

CTV - Fluoride returns to Calgary’s water - June 30, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX-Afb6aGnE

CBC - Fluoride is back in Calgary's tap water - June 30, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBcXwmXVUXU

Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson - Fluoride - September 30, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVpj6C2_Rno

Calgary children’s dental health getting worse without community water fluoridation
https://cumming.ucalgary.ca/news/calgary-childrens-dental-health-getting-worse-without-community-water-fluoridation

Fluoridation cessation and children’s dental caries: A 7-year follow-up evaluation of Grade 2 schoolchildren in Calgary and Edmonton, Canada
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdoe.12685

Exploring the short-term impact of community water fluoridation cessation on children's dental caries: a natural experiment in Alberta, Canada
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033350616304656

The State of Community Water Fluoridation across Canada - 2022 Report
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/healthy-living/community-water-fluoridation-across-canada.html
https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/phac-aspc/documents/services/publications/healthy-living/community-water-fluoridation-across-canada/community-water-fluoridation-across-canada-eng.pdf

PHAC - Community Water Fluoridation
https://c4kh.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/public-health-agency-of-canada-fluoridation-fact-sheet-2016.pdf

Reasons to End Water Fluoridation
https://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Reasons-to-End-Water-Fluoridation.pdf

Saskatchewan - Community Water Fluoride Report 2020
https://caphd.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2020-SK-CWF-Report-Final.pdf

Lotus Study
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/lotus/

NTP Monograph on the State of the Science Concerning Fluoride Exposure and Neurodevelopment and Cognition
https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2024-08/fluoride_final_508.pdf

EPA Lawsuit
https://www.cand.uscourts.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/17-cv-2162-Food-_-Water-Watch-Inc.-et-al.-v.-EPA-et-al-Opinion.pdf

CDC Admissions Of Fluoride Benefit And Harm
https://fluoridealert.org/content/under-oath-cdc-admissions-of-fluoride-benefit-and-harm/

CDC Unable To Cite Studies Showing Fluoride Is Effective When Swallowed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPDWbOD4qGM

Fluoridated Water Does Not Provide a Benefit During the First 6 Months of Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtkLKY8QMTE

We Have No Safety Data on Fluoride and the Brain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkILustjf5A

Fluoridation by the Numbers
https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/data-visualizations/2014/fluoridation-by-the-numbers

Professional Engineers Ontario - The role of professional engineers in maintaining the policy of municipal water fluoridation in Ontario
https://www.peo.on.ca/sites/d9efault/files/2024-03/ED-SO2013.pdf

Brenntag Canada - Hydrofluosilicic Acid Material Safety Data Sheet
https://reviewboard.ca/upload/project_document/EA1011-001_Hydroflosilicic_acid_MSDS.PDF

Metropolitan Toronto v. Forest Hill (Village)
https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/1957/1957canlii15/1957canlii15.html

Maternal Urinary Fluoride and Child Neurobehavior at Age 36 Months
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2818858

Association Between Maternal Fluoride Exposure During Pregnancy and IQ Scores in Offspring in Canada
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2748634

Prenatal fluoride exposure and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in children at 6–12 years of age in Mexico City
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412018311814

Mechanisms of Fluoride Toxicity: From Enzymes to Underlying Integrative Networks
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/20/7100

Fluoride Exposure from Infant Formula and Child IQ in a Canadian Birth Cohort
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6913880/

Fluoride exposure and hypothyroidism in a Canadian pregnancy cohort
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722082523

Fluoride exposure and sleep patterns among older adolescents in the United States: a cross-sectional study of NHANES 2015–2016
https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-019-0546-7

Measuring the short-term impact of fluoridation cessation on dental caries in Grade 2 children using tooth surface indices
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdoe.12215

Fluoride Exposure and Children’s IQ Scores - A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2828425

A Benchmark Dose Analysis for Maternal Pregnancy Urine-Fluoride and IQ in Children
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/risa.13767

Prenatal Fluoride Exposure and Cognitive Outcomes in Children at 4 and 6–12 Years of Age in Mexico
https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/epdf/10.1289/EHP655

Water Fluoridation: A Critical Review of the Physiological Effects of Ingested Fluoride as a Public Health Intervention
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3956646/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3956646/pdf/TSWJ2014-293019.pdf