fluoridate

IPA: fɫʊrʌdˈeɪt

(chemistry, dentistry, transitive) To add fluoride to something, especially to drinking water in order to reduce tooth decay.

Examples of "fluoridate" in Sentences

He explained that the treatment recommendations are not about me at all, but "a public health issue, just like why we fluoridate water."
Amazingly, the United States is only one of eight countries in the entire developed world that fluoridate more than 50 percent of their water supply.
When the U.S. policy to fluoridate our drinking water was first developed, scientists and dentists believed that only ingested fluoride benefited teeth.
A group of private citizens in San Diego County is planning to file a large-scale lawsuit in federal court against public water districts and challenge the constitutionality of using industrial-grade hydrofluosilicic acid to fluoridate drinking water.
Several studies from Europe and elsewhere (see here [pdf], here and here) show that developed countries now have similar levels of cavities whether they fluoridated their water or not -- a change from the 1970s and '80s when countries that did not fluoridate their water had more tooth decay on average than those that did.