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DEAN, Henry Trendley (1893 – 1962)

1893 – 1962

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1950 CE

#3692.1

Studies on mass control of dental caries through fluoridation of the public water supply.

It has not been conclusively demonstrated whether fluoride serves a specific physiological role, but fluoridation of public water supplies was followed by a reduction in the incidence of dental caries. One of the firs…