Fluoridation

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28700, 25 September 1958, Page 3

Fluoridation

Sir, —Dr. H. M. Sinclair, nutritionist, Magdalen College, Oxford, states in “British Medical Journal” 5058: “Research has indeed proved that deficiency of vitamin B 6 in lower animals can produce caries but instead of seeking the cause in man we embark upon a policy of adding fluoride to drinking water without, in my opinion, fully adequate investigation by research into the chronic effects of that, particularly in old people.' I am not alone in that view. Two days ago I received a letter from one of the leading nutritional experts in the U.S.A., in which he mentions his recent experimental results that cause him to question the value of fluoridation and to deplore the regimentation of the American physicians and dentists, who know nothing about fluoridation and say what they are ordered to say. I believe this is one of many examples where a little learning is a dangerous thing. . . .” Yours, etc., JOHN BURBRIDGE. September 23, 1958.