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What they're referring to is the fact that very few countries in the rest of the world even consider the possibility of adding fluoride to the water supply. It's basically just the US, Australia, and to a much lesser extent Canada.

It's not a debate everywhere else because adding fluoride to the water is objectively an unusual thing to do that they just... don't. Presumably they get fluoride other ways.




How many countries actually drink their tap water as their main source of water?


Pretty much the entire Europe, for starters.


AFAIK all (former) USSR does that.




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