Bantry isn’t ‘fluoride-free’

I disagree with the campaign to cease fluoridation of drinking water in Ireland and the recent declaration of Bantry as a ‘fluoride-free’ town.

Bantry is not fluoride-free. A few businesses serving fluoride-free water don’t constitute fluoride-free. Thankfully, for our dental health, the public water is still fluoridated.

The argument to cease fluoridation is neither based on science nor rational argument. Fluoridation of water adds fluoride in the form of the fluoride-containing compound, hydrofluosilicic acid.