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  • 37 per cent of Hong Kong kindergarten pupils have rotten teeth, study finds

    Despite a drop in the number of kindergarten pupils with tooth decay, the prevalence rate in Hong Kong remains higher than in Japan, Britain and the US. The University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Dentistry found that two out of five children, or 37 per cent of the 23,000 pupils it examined in the last […]

  • Opinion: New Jerseyans going without the benefits of fluoride in tap water

    It’s been more than 50 years since community water fluoridation was denounced by fearful citizens as a Communist plot to undermine America. But in recent years, a new wave of distrust has surrounded fluoridation, ranked by the Centers for Disease Control among the top ten great public health achievements of the 20th century. In March, […]

  • Durango: City asked to eliminate fluoride in water

    A commission that studies water issues in Durango will discuss further reducing or even eliminating fluoride in the city’s drinking water. Dr. Jim Forleo, a Durango chiropractor who has been leading local efforts to eliminate fluoride use in water, said he hopes to encourage city officials to take a fresh look, given new guidance and […]

  • The campaign to keep Austin fluoridated

    This was an email sent out by the Texas Oral Health Coalition on August 11 – see original [See FluorideFreeAustin for the other side] Call for Action The Texas Oral Health Coalition requests letters of support regarding community water fluoridation to be sent to the Austin Public Utilities Committee as soon as possible. A resolution […]

  • The Teflon Toxin. DuPont and the Chemistry of Deception

    KEN WAMSLEY SOMETIMES DREAMS that he’s playing softball again. He’ll be at center field, just like when he played slow pitch back in his teens, or pounding the ball over the fence as the crowd goes wild. Other times, he’s somehow inexplicably back at work in the lab. Wamsley calls them nightmares, these stories that […]

  • Debate over fluoridating water heads to more receptive Austin council

    Former Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell tersely ticked off to a crowd of fluoride detractors last year why he wasn’t going to budge: They had no scientific evidence, his own dentist supports adding fluoride to drinking water, and a City Council committee had even “gone to the trouble” of vetting the issue. The council sided with […]

  • Bones of the victims at Roman Herculaneum

    Excerpts: These studies of skeletal elements and burials in the Roman period have been of enduring interest to many archaeologists and proved to act towards a better understanding of the fundamental demographic regimes characterising Roman antiquity. … The benefits of dental archaeology are broader than differentiating ages in skeletal remains as they can determine the […]

  • Explainer: 6 questions about Ithaca’s decades-long fluoride debate

    Adding fluoride to the water supply has been a hotly debated, and at times confusing, topic in Ithaca for more than 50 years. “I’ve been here since 1971 and this has always been an issue,” said Marcia Lynch, Tompkins County’s public information officer. Below are answers to common questions about fluoridation in Ithaca. 1 — Is […]

  • FLUORIDE: Put an end to outdated practice

    Re: “Anti-fluoridation billboards are misleading, irresponsible” (Viewpoint, 8-16 [sic, 8-7]). Contrary to assertions by Drs. Janelle Guirguis-Blake and Chris Jones, the anti-fluoridation billboards in the Tacoma area are not misleading. These billboards question whether children should be drinking a neurotoxic chemical. Guirguis-Blake and Jones don’t deny fluoride is neurotoxic. Nor could they. More than 40 […]

  • New fluoride/brain Study could end fluoridation

    NTP Proposes Landmark Fluoride/Brain Study Thanks to your support, the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) has been able to raise public awareness about the serious, permanent risks that fluoride poses to the developing brain. This was once a lonely battle — but, fortunately, that is starting to change. In 2012, a team of Harvard scientists published a meta-review of […]