For more than 60 years the NZ health department has denied its own fluoride reports! I raise this as our health department has set out to force fluoride into all our water supplies here in Tauranga.

For example, every year our HD has carefully gathered dental health data on all our children, across the whole country, to compare results. Only half of the NZ population is on fluoridated water.

Every year the results show that fluoride does not work as claimed. For example, fluoridated Christchurch child dental health is equally as good as fluoridated Auckland.

Across the whole country the pattern has been repeated year after year. Perhaps now, as the heavy hand of undemocratic force is being applied, an editor might just ask for the dental health data.

Ken Evans, Tauranga City