Highlighting facts about community water fluoridation

Despite decades of scientific validation and measurable public health success, community water fluoridation continues to face waves of misinformation. During the session The ABCs of Community Water Fluoridation: Science, Specifics, and Stats” at Smilecon 2025, a pair of experts — Liz Lense, D.D.S., senior scientist for population health programs at the ADA, and Scott L. […]

Daily Item: Selinsgrove Considers Removing Fluoride from Water

The Daily Item reports Selinsgrove Borough Council is considering removing fluoride from its water system. The newspaper reports council was told that DEP has tightened its rules regarding the monitoring of water systems that use fluoride. Also the new monitoring equipment and labor would be several thousand dollars according to the borough manager. Earlier this […]

Mapping Fluoride Levels in Brazil’s Semi-Arid Regions

As artificial intelligence continues its rapid evolution, the limitations imposed by classical electronic processors have become painfully evident. Energy inefficiency and processing latency of these traditional systems constrain the potential of AI applications across diverse areas such as real-time data analysis, autonomous vehicles, and large-scale machine learning tasks. This pressing challenge has catalyzed research into […]

The art of managing fluoride misconceptions

Did you know dental caries is the most prevalent health condition worldwide? The Caries Conundrum: Managing Fluoride Misconceptions, an Oct. 23 session at SmileCon 2025, addressed this fact and many other aspects of dental caries, including risk factors, the importance of high-dose fluoride applications in pediatric dentistry, management of fluoride hesitancy, and the latest evidence-based […]

Fluoride kicked around like a “political football”

AMA Queensland President Dr Nick Yim spoke to ABC Sunshine Coast about the ongoing challenge of keeping fluoride in the drinking water supplies of local Queensland councils. TIM WONG-SEE: Gympie Council got a lot of flack recently when it voted to stop adding fluoride to the town’s water supply. It may have been following some of […]

MAHA policies in Tennessee: Restricting fluoride

President Trump’s nearly year long “Make America Healthy Again” campaign produced policies that are bleeding into the Tennessee statehouse, like a ban on fluoride. Original article online at: https://www.wkrn.com/video/maha-policies-in-tennessee-restricting-fluoride/11193255/

Town Meeting strikes down plan for referendum on fluoridation of Shrewsbury water

SHREWSBURY – Shrewsbury’s H2O will remain status quo. At Special Town Meeting on Oct. 22, elected representatives of Shrewsbury voted against Article 7, a citizens’ petition brought forward by Shrewsbury High School senior Sam Rajwani, who started the process as part of a Civic Action Project. The article asked Town Meeting to bring the question […]