0 past simple and past participle of fluoridate
1 to add fluoride (= a chemical that makes teeth stronger) to water or toothpaste
Other uncontrolled external variables, such as nutrition, fluoridated water consumption, tooth-brushing, flossing and fluoride treatments might also have influenced the outcome.
There is no evidence that fluoridated water is necessary in order that people should have healthy teeth.
There are many diabetics whose health will not be improved by drinking fluoridated water.
If fluoridation in the food chain is a benefit in unfluoridated areas, as the health department claims, it must be above optimal in fluoridated areas.
Most of the worst districts for tooth decay were not fluoridated; a number of these are in the north-west.
Its water supply was fluoridated in 1986; 10 years later the rate of tooth decay in five year-olds has halved.
Natural fluoride concentrations are periodically monitored by the water undertaker in areas which are not artificially fluoridated.
Any convincing evidence of harm to general health as a result of drinking artificially fluoridated water at one part per million has yet to emerge.
