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Dentists accuse councillors of ‘peddling myths’ in fluoride row
The professional body for dentists in the UK has accused councillors opposed to adding fluoride to Hull and East Yorkshire’s water supply of “peddling myths”. The warning came after the councillor in charge of finance at Hull City Council, Phil Webster, said there was no chance of the scheme aimed at tackling tooth decay, which […]
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Data on fluoride concentration in drinking water resources in Iran: A case study of Fars province; Larestan region.
Abstract: Fluoride is a natural element among minerals, geochemical sediments and natural water systems which is entered to body chain by drinking water. Groundwater is the main and the best source of drinking water in southern areas of Iran especially in the cities of Lar and Gerash (Fars province). So due to the health significance […]
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Across India, high levels of toxins in groundwater
NEW DELHI: Discharge of toxic elements from industries and landfills and diffused sources of pollution like fertilisers and pesticides over the years has resulted in high levels of contamination of groundwater with the level of nitrates exceeding permissible limits in more than 50% districts of India. Apart from nitrate contamination, the presence of fluoride, iron, […]
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Unpopular fluoride scheme for Hull and East Yorkshire residents ‘will not happen’
Controversial plans to add fluoride to the water supply of more than 340,000 people in Hull and the East Riding to address some of the worst rates of tooth decay in the country “will not happen”, according to a councillor. The proposals – which had the backing of former Health Secretary and Hull MP Alan […]
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Best Toothpastes For Toddlers That Get The ADA Seal Of Approval
Note: The Fluoride Action Network adds all important articles relating to fluoride exposure to its NewsTracker as we want to ensure as complete a historical record as possible. __________________________________________________________ When I watch my toddler brush her teeth, I marvel at how self-sufficient she seems. Wasn’t she just a baby like a second ago? While she […]
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Rethink Fluoride campaign launched to counter Health Amendment Bill
Fluoride Free NZ, an organisation established to end water fluoridation in New Zealand, has lent its support to the campaign and provided seed funding. Rethink Fluoride’s objective is to encourage Parliament not to proceed with the Bill and in fact use this opportunity to take a fresh look at the fluoridation issue. This is especially […]
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Potsdam forum focuses on choice about fluoridation
POTSDAM — More than 20 people gathered Thursday night in Potsdam’s Town Hall community room to listen to a man who had helped coordinate the removal of fluoride in Canton’s water supply. However Paul Connett, a former professor at St. Lawrence University, was preceded by two women who had taken the evidence he had shared […]
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Prediction modeling and mapping of groundwater fluoride contamination throughout India.
Abstract: For about the past eight decades, high concentrations of naturally occurring fluoride have been detected in groundwater in different parts of India. The chronic consumption of fluoride in high concentrations is recognized to cause dental and skeletal fluorosis. We have used the random forest machine-learning algorithm to model a dataset of 12,600 groundwater fluoride […]
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Part 3: Fluoride hotspots of Tamil Nadu: Why quick action on the ground is needed
The TN government thinks it has solved the problem with water supply schemes, but that is far from the ground reality. The well-begun story of TN’s fight against fluoride contamination can have a resounding finale as in the case of several other social sector programmes. Two major reports about India’s water scenario provide us with […]
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Part 2: TN’s fluoride hotspots: How failed water supply schemes are jeopardising community health
India’s water crisis is rooted in poverty and inequality, not in physical availability, and this is more apparent in the fluoride hotspots of Tamil Nadu. Forty-eight-year-old P Selvaraj, a farmer at Seerikaddu in Kuppanur Panchayat (Ayothipattinam block of Salem District) has a severe case of dental fluorosis, with his entire set of teeth stained brown. […]
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