NZ dental health statistics

"I am quite convinced that water fluoridation, in a not-too-distant future, will be consigned to medical history." - Dr. ARVID CARLSSON, Winner, Nobel Prize for Medicine (2000).

As Ministry of Health figures show, dental health has improved consistently since 1930, 30 years before fluoridation began, until 1990, 30 years afterwards. It is clear therefore that fluoridation has had no effect on dental health, as also shown by World Health Organisation figures.

The following graph shows this constant improvement: