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 […]
News Archive
Welcome to the Fluoride Action Network News Archive. The FAN News Archive serves as an historical repository for fluoride news stories, positive or negative. Since FAN catalogs all news stories on fluoride, our news section remains a reliable database of all published fluoride news.
Our news database is categorized by country, state/province, and industry. This collection of articles is constantly being updated with the most recent global news on fluoride-related issues and events.
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 […]
Santa Fe no longer putting fluoride into water due to high repair costs, health risk concerns
The city of Santa Fe will no longer add fluoride to its water supply, something city officials said was due in part to high costs and ongoing research into the health risks and benefits of fluoride. A naturally occurring mineral that helps strengthen teeth, fluoride is frequently added to the water supply for its dental […]
Wyandotte commission votes to keep the city’s water fluoride-free
The Wyandotte Municipal Services Commission voted down a resolution Wednesday to return to fluoridating its water supply. The city stopped fluoridating its water 10 years ago, when its water treatment plant was undergoing a rehabilitation project, according to the city’s website. Starting in the 1940s, municipalities around the country have added fluoride to their drinking […]
Wyandotte officials vote against restoring fluoride to drinking water: ‘I have my reasons why’
Overview: – Wyandotte officials voted against the resumption of drinking water fluoridation Wednesday. – While Wyandotte discontinued fluoride in 2015, the city website said until June of this year that it fluoridates its drinking water. – “I have my reasons why; I don’t need to make a comment,” Commissioner Christopher Brohl tells Planet Detroit after […]
WaterOne board candidates on the issues: Fluoridation
Earlier this summer, the Post asked our readers what issues you wanted to hear candidates running for WaterOne Board to address leading up to the Nov. 4 election. Based on that feedback, we developed a three-item questionnaire centering the issues most important to Johnson County residents. Each day this week, we’re publishing the candidates’ responses to one […]
Kentucky lawmakers consider shifting fluoride decision power
KENTUCKY (WKYT) – The Kentucky General Assembly is poised to once again consider legislation concerning fluoride in water systems. Currently, the state requires water systems to add fluoride. However, some lawmakers want to change this by giving oversight powers to local water districts to decide whether or not to add fluoride. State Representative Mark Hart, […]
Fairhope considering fluoride removal
Fairhope Mayor Sherry Sullivan said Fairhope is considering removing fluoride from the city’s water system, which serves about 22,000 residents, citing employee safety concerns and annual costs of $80,000–$100,000. If approved, Fairhope would become the seventh Alabama city since 2024 to end fluoridation. Sullivan plans to consult local dentists before making a decision, while health […]