Fluoridation’s Long And Winding Road Into Cincinnati’s Water Supply, Part II

The City of Cincinnati, encouraged by all the major dental associations, first considered adding fluoride compounds to the water supply to reduce tooth decay especially among children in 1952. Although equipment for this purpose was installed, fluoridation was cancelled at the polls in 1953. [ Read Part One here. ] Fluoridation reemerged as a question in 1960, pushed toward another vote by the…