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The cost and cost effectiveness of water fluoridation, and who pays?
 
     
»   The cost and cost-effectiveness of water fluoridation (Published in One in a Million)
     
»   Water Fluoridation - An Economics Perspective Summary of a study by the University of York Health Economics Consortium
     
»   More Health Bang for the Government Buck - Reuters April 13, 2000
     
»   Cost-effectiveness in dental health: a review of strategies available for preventing caries.
RL Akehurst, and DJ Sanderson 1994: British Journal of Medical Economics; 7: 43-54
     
»   Cost of fluoridation: 44 Florida communities. ML Ringelberg, SJ Allen, LJ Brown 1992: Journal of Public Health Dentistry; 52: 75-80.
     
»   The relative cost effectiveness of water fluoridation across communities: analysis of variations according to underlying caries levels. S Birch 1990: Community Dental Health; 7: 3-10
     
»   Has the decline of dental caries in English children made water
fluoridation both unnecessary and uneconomic?
D Jackson 1987: British Dental Journal; 162: 170-173
     
»   Effect of fluoridation on the cost of dental treatment among urban Scottish schoolchildren. MC Downer, AS Blinkhorn, D Attwood 1981: Community Dentistry Oral Epidemiology; 9: 112-116.
     
»   The economics of fluoridation. TB Dowell 1976: British Dental Journal; 140: 103-106
     
»   Fluoride in the prevention of dental caries. A tentative cost-benefit analysis.
GN Davies 1973: British Dental Journal; 135: 79-83, and 131-134
     
»   The value of fluoridation of water supplies. L Hardwick 1965: British Dental Journal; 119: 529-534
     
 
 

"Community water fluoridation is safe and cost-effective and should be introduced and maintained wherever it is socially acceptable and feasible."

- World Health Organisation Expert Committee on Oral Health Status and Fluoride Use 1994.
Who pays for fluoridation?
In the UK the total cost of water fluoridation is borne by the NHS.
 
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