FLUORIDATION
Sir,-In a letter in your issue of July 9 dealing with "Fluoridation," two apparent authorities are quoted setting out the evils of fluoridation. In your editorial comments you quote two further authorities setting out the virtues. Personally, I am prepared to accept ‘the opinions of all four "authorities." How then can these seeming irreconcilables be reconciled? The ,answer, of course, lies in point 4 of your reply, which could perhaps have received more emphasis: "Fluoride content in the water on the level required for treatment of dental decay had no
effect on physique, heart, bones or liver." As every medico knows (and apparently fewer laymen than one would expect) many of our medicaments are poisons when used in greater concentrations. Outstanding instances are arsenic and strychnine as well as most of the barbiturates. As is also well known, many of the "confessions" in Communist trials are effected by over-concentration of what are helpful drugs when correctly used.
S.
H.
Wellington) .
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 783, 23 July 1954, Page 5
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161FLUORIDATION New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 783, 23 July 1954, Page 5
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