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  • FDA Drug Safety Communication: FDA review results in new warnings about using general anesthetics and sedation drugs in young children and pregnant women.

    The FDA has issued new information about this safety issue, see the FDA Drug Safety Communication issued on 4-27-2017. [ 12-14-2016 ] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning that repeated or lengthy use of general anesthetic and sedation drugs during surgeries or procedures in children younger than 3 years or in pregnant […]

  • Dentists under pressure to drill ‘healthy teeth’ for profit, former insiders allege

    Read full article with graphics here Johannah Lancaster took her 3-year-old son to Dental Express for his first checkup, expecting a routine cleaning. She never imagined the treatment plan the Niles, Ohio, dentist would come up with after he peeked into Gregory’s mouth for what seemed like only two or three minutes. Michael Griesmer said the preschooler needed root canals – seven of them. Stunned, Lancaster asked why he had not even taken […]

  • Smile Spokane information on City Council’s website: Part 1.

    Note from Fluoride Action Network: SmileSpokane, the force behind the huge campaign to fluoridate Spokane, has two resources on fluoridation listed on the City Council of Spokane’s website under Items of Interest. The following is a propaganda piece listed on the website as City Council Information on Fluoride (PDF 974 KB). The pdf is dated […]

  • CDC: Statement on the Evidence Supporting the Safety and Effectiveness of Community Water Fluoridation

    [PDF version here] June 6th, 2018 On behalf of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), we are pleased to provide a statement on the evidence regarding the safety and benefits of community water fluoridation. For the record, this statement is not testimony for or against any specific legislative proposal. Good oral health is […]

  • Letter from “International Group of Fluoridation Experts”

    International Group of Fluoridation Experts <interntl.fluoridationexperts@gmail.com> September 21, 2020 Mr. Paul Tsaparis Chair, York University Board of Governors 1050 Kaneff Tower, Keele Street Toronto, ON Canada M3J 1P3 c/o Pascal Robichaud Secretary, Executive Committee pascalr@yorku.ca   Dear Mr. Tsaparis and Members of the Board of York University, Toronto, Canada, As governors of York University, you […]

  • Destroying Forever Chemicals Ignites N.Y. Town’s ‘Worst Fears’

    Firefighters spray foam on burning embers beside homes on Latigo Canyon Road in Malibu, Calif., in 2018. PFAS-laced firefighting foam from multiple states had been sent for destruction to an incinerator in upstate New York, raising concerns about local health and environmental effects. Photographer: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via via Getty Images Incineration ‘unproven’ method of […]

  • Canadian Mother-Offspring IQ Study: American Council on Science and Health.

    No, Fluoride Doesn’t Lower IQ. It Fails to Satisfy Hill’s Criteria of Causality By Alex Berezow Because Americans have a conspiracy theory about everything, of course there’s a conspiracy involving drinking water. Didn’t you know that fluoride, which is added to our drinking water to keep our teeth healthy (and is considered one of the […]

  • Study looks at media coverage of water fluoridation efforts

    Last fall, oral health advocates joined a successful push to save a city water fluoridation ordinance in Rugby, N.D. Meanwhile, in Buda, Texas, voters rejected a measure that would have reinstated water fluoridation in their Austin suburb. A misinformation campaign mounted by a local anti-fluoridation group won out over the science, fluoridation supporter Jonathan Kimes, […]

  • How Can These Televised Fluoridation Debates Help You?

    Fundraising Update: We have raised $18,082 from 99 donors.  This means that we are one away from earning a $1000 challenge when we reach 100 donors (see below). Also the 100th donor will receive a free and signed (by Paul Connett) copy of “The Case Against Fluoride” by Connett, Beck and Micklem. The formula applies to donors #200, […]

  • Dental students create awareness for importance of advocacy

    A group of dental students at Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry (TAMBCD) is creating unique learning experiences for their peers that they might not otherwise receive in the clinic or classroom. The topic: how state and federal legislation impacts dental students and the profession as a whole. The method is an “advocacy academy,” […]