The state of community water fluoridation across Canada : 2017 report / prepared by the Public Health Capacity and Knowledge Management Unit, Quebec Region for the Office of the Chief Dental Officer of...: HP35-97/2018E-PDF

"In spite of its robust policy and scientific endorsement, a number of municipalities have discontinued community water fluoridation (CWF) since 2012, which has an impact on the percentage of the population which currently has access to fluoridated water. To document the situation from a national perspective, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) Office of the Chief Dental Officer (OCDO), working closely with the Federal Provincial Territorial Dental Directors Working Group (FPTDDWG), has taken a leadership role to update the data on the state of CWF across Canada every five years. The OCDO had already carried out this exercise three times: in 2005, 2007 and 2012. In addition to estimating the population’s access to optimal levels of fluoride through a community water supply, the 2012 round also included data on population access to well water supplies that contained naturally occurring fluoride. The additional element in this 2017 report is the provision of estimates of access to fluoridated drinking water in Indigenous communities"--Introd., p. 2.

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