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It’s been almost a year since Utah banned supplemental fluoride from drinking water. Roughly 43% of Utahns went from drinking fluoridated water to not. Lawmakers said residents should be able to choose whether they wanted to take fluoride and cited research that high levels of fluoride can hurt people’s health. Dental experts decried the ban. It’s too soon to see […]

Last year, Utah lawmakers passed the first statewide ban on fluoridating water in public water systems. The law also includes a provision that makes fluoride supplements more accessible to people without the need to visit a dentist. This would make fluoride available by individual choice, rather than through “mass water fluoridation,” as stated on a […]

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration recently updated its stance on ingestible fluoride supplements meant for children, while the Utah Dental Association provided its own advice regarding the supplements. Meanwhile, a local dentist said fluoride use should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. According to a press release from the Utah Dental Association, the FDA […]

A military’s readiness level typically reflects its training, equipment and the capacity of its leaders across the ranks. But what about a healthy set of chompers? Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., believes there is a link between quality dental health in the troops and military readiness — and that link could possibly be weakened by politically […]

Brigham City, Utah—After turning off Utah State Route 90 and making a short drive down Power Plant Road at the foot of the rugged Wellsville Mountains, Mike Waite pulls up in front of a beige storage shed. “This is what used to be our fluoride building,” says Waite, Brigham City’s assistant public works director and […]

When Utah lawmakers took away the ability of communities to fluoridate their drinking water this year, they legalized an alternative: to let Utah pharmacists sell fluoride supplements without a prescription. Now the federal Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to ban those supplements for children — because, according to an FDA news release from […]

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — The Utah Dental Association (UDA) is urging the public to submit comments to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in support of ingestible fluoride supplements. The FDA is considering removing ingestible fluoride supplements from the market entirely, which could leave Utahns completely without access to fluoride. An official hearing […]

Utah lawmakers, who voted to ban fluoride from drinking water, are considering a new cavity-prevention idea for Utahns to chew on: Giving school kids and prisoners xylitol gum three times a day. Nate Jones, the CEO of Xlear, a company that sells xylitol gum and other xylitol products, presented the idea to a recent interim […]

Lynette Schwinn grew up drinking well water on a ranch in Idaho. When she was about 20, she said, a dentist told her that her teeth were deteriorating and would likely be gone by the time she was 35. Then she moved to Brigham City, which began adding fluoride to the city’s water in 1965, […]

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is coming to Utah on Monday, according to the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Kennedy will be holding a news conference with Lee Zeldin — administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — in Salt Lake City on Monday. They are expected […]