Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the addition of a fluoride to the water supply (to prevent dental decay).
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- noun the addition of a fluoride to the water supply (to prevent dental decay)
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Examples
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It called for a tooth-brushing campaign, properly equipped dental clinics in a least all 10 provincial public hospitals, the fluoridization of table salt and a chief national dentist.
Thestar.com - Home Page Catherine Porter 2010
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It called for a tooth-brushing campaign, properly equipped dental clinics in a least all 10 provincial public hospitals, the fluoridization of table salt and a chief national dentist.
Thestar.com - Home Page Catherine Porter 2010
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All you need to do now is work fluoridization into it, and you will get your honorary tinfoil hat in the mail.
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Death threats forced city officials to remove her name from a reserved City Hall parking space in the early 1980s as she pushed for fluoridization of the east side water supply
chron.com Chronicle 2009
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