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Mercury bill sparks bizarre fight
Did the American Dental Association threaten to limit dental care in Maine if state lawmakers ban mercury fillings? The Chicago-based group says it never made such a threat. But two advocacy groups claim otherwise and have filed an antitrust petition with the Federal Trade Commission and the Maine attorney general. The groups — Consumers for […]
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Watering down real concerns over fluoride
RECENTLY a group of over 100 dentists met to discuss the near epidemic levels of dental fluorosis in Irish children. These professionals, members of Irish Dentists Opposing Fluoridation (IDOF) (www.idof.net) also reviewed the North/South Oral Health study carried out by the Department of Health, which showed a near seven-fold increase in fluoride damage to teeth […]
Ireland -
Tap water fluoride ‘claims timebomb’
A COMPENSATION action is to be taken in the High Court against the State by parents who claim their child’s teeth were damaged by fluoride in their tap water. A group representing over 100 dentists opposed to fluoridation yesterday branded the continued State-sponsored mandatory fluoridation of drinking water “a ticking compensation timebomb”. A review of […]
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State to be sued over tooth damage caused by tap water
The parents of a child whose teeth were llegedly damaged by fluoride in tap water are repor edly set to seek compensation from the State in the Hi Reports this morning said a group of dentists opposed to the fluoridation of water was claiming that levels of fluoride damage in the Republic were three times […]
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Fluorosis at ‘epidemic’ levels – dentists
A group of over 100 dentists has severely criticised Health Minister Mary Harney for failing to deal with ‘the near epidemic levels of dental fluorosis’ among Irish children. Dental fluorosis is damage to the enamel of the teeth. It is caused by drinking water with a high fluorine content during the time when teeth are […]
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Contentious Fluoridation Issue Continues in Pierce County
April 12 –Sumner, WA Concerned citizens of Sumner, Washington in Pierce County should be aware the Tacoma/Pierce County Health Department (TPCHD) has changed its regulations regarding fluoridating the city’s water systems causing further debate among citizens and city council members making the issue even more confusing for an apprehensive population. The confusion lies in the […]
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Majority of fluoridation plants operating illegally
“Of the six hundred water supplies in Ireland that are dosed with fluoride, under half have legal sanction” said VOICE campaigner Robert Pocock. According to successive EPA reports since 1997 (1), over a hundred public water supplies are illegal under the Health (Fluoridation of Water Supplies) Act 1960 and a further two hundred group supplies […]
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Dentists Slam Harney Over Fluoride Poisoning
Irish Dentists Opposing Fluoridation (IDOF), a group of over 100 dentists, has published an article in The Irish Dentist slamming Minister Harney and the Department of Health for doing nothing to combat the near epidemic levels of dental fluorosis in Irish children. [1] Here, dental fluorosis, fluoride damage to teeth, has sky-rocketed with a seven […]
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Fluoride poll not affiliated with city
Pollsters working for the Washington State Dental Association are claiming to represent Bellingham’s Public Works Department – but an association spokesman said he doesn’t know why. The survey aims to gauge people’s attitudes about adding fluoride to city water, which is not fluoridated now. “An ongoing major part of our public-policy efforts is to implement […]
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24 hospitalised after chemical leak
Twenty-four people have been hospitalised, including one man in a serious condition, after a chemical spill at a Caltex oil refinery in east Brisbane. Police said hydrogen fluoride, which when mixed with water becomes hydrofluoric acid, escaped when a pipe ruptured at the refinery in Lytton about 8.40am (AEST) on Thursday. A total of 45 […]
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