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TIL 61.2% of people living in Canada don't have fluoridated tap water!

TIL 61.2% of people living in Canada don't have fluoridated tap water! https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/healthy-living/community-water-fluoridation-across-canada.html

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My understanding is that all the people without fluoridated tap water still get sufficient fluoride (whether through chewing tablets, tooth paste, treatments at the dentist). I could be convinced that adding it to water is not sufficiently worth it.

Yeah. Years ago I saw one of the conspiracies about it and I asked our municipality if it was in there and if they could explain why to a skeptic like me and they said “we don’t fluoridate the water. Most of Canada doesn’t. It’s not proven to have a significant benefit.”

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Oh did it get added back in? I just saw it was removed!

We had it in Calgary for decades, removed it for a few years, then added it back into our supply