History
Danish researcher Kaj Roholm published Fluorine Intoxication in 1937, which was praised in a 1938 review by dental researcher H. Trendley Dean as "probably the outstanding contribution to the literature of fluorine". Since that time, the fluoridation of public water has been widely implemented and has been hailed as one of the top medical achievements of the 20th Century. The effects of fluoride-rich ground water became recognized in the 1990s.
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