Reeves, continued

-------Ahokas, J., et al., Review of water fluoridation and fluoride intake from discretionary fluoride supplements: review for NHMRC. 1999.  Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Monash University: Melbourne.


The York Review (2000), a systematic review of 214 studies of varying quality, found no clear association between fluoridation of water and osteosarcoma.

-------McDonagh M S, et al., Systemic review of water fluoridation. BMJ, 2000. 321.


A study by Hoover et al found no relationship between osteosarcoma and fluoridation. This study is important because of the large numbers involved (125,000 incident cancers, and 2.3 million cancer deaths).


------Medical Research Council Working Group, Water fluoridation and health. 2002, Medical Research Council: United Kingdom.


In 2002 the British Medical Research Council agreed that overall, evidence does not suggest that artificially fluoridated water increase the risk of cancer.

Steven D. Slott, DDS