l disfigurements among children.” (Yiamouyiannis pg. 138) Despite these warnings Dr. Cox continued to promote fluoridation of watersupplies and even convinced a Wisconsin dentist, J. J. Frisch to promote the addition offluoride to water supplies in his book, The Fight For Fluoridation. Frisch soon garneredthe support of Frank Bull. Frank Bull organized political campaigns in order to persuadelocal officials to endorse fluoridation. This began to apply heavy pressure on the UnitedStates Public Health Service and the American Dental Association. (Yiamouyiannis pg.139) In 1945 before any tests had been proven to show that fluoride reduced cavities, itwas added to the drinking water supply of Grand Rapids, Michigan. This was done as atest. It would be the experiment to see if fluoride would decrease the number of cavities. The data would be collected periodically over the next five years, and in 1950 the datashowed that the number of cavities was decreasing, but in the town of Muskegon, whichdid not have a fluoridated water supply, cavities decreased by the same margin. Howeverthe information about Muskegon was covered up (Waldbott pg. 262). A few days after the information about Grand Rapids was released the UnitedStates Public Health Service called a press conference in which they said that: “Communities desiring to fluoridate their communal water supplies should be stronglyencouraged to do so.” (Waldbott pg. 263) In June 1951, dental health representatives from around the U. S. met with dentalhealth officials to discuss the promotion and implementation of fluoride. It was at thisconference that the United States Public Health Service formally endorsed fluoridation. Ithad finally succumb to the pressure. Two years later in 1953, the American DentalAssociation also began to support fluoridation, when they released a pamphlet, sending itto every dentistry office in the U. S. The pamphlet told the advantages of ...
