New Canadian report throws cold water on fluoridation

TORONTO – Putting fluoride in municipal drinking water may be more trouble than it is worth, according to a newly released government report. The report, commissioned by the federal and Ontario governments, suggests that fluoridation has minimal benefits and even some risk. The evidence suggests that tooth decay is less common in communities with fluoridated […]

Fluoridation quietly reduced again

Having previously rejected the formal 1999 recommendations of a team comprised of Dr. Hardy Limeback, (the late) Dr. John Yiamouyiannis and nutritionist Janet Budgell, to lower the fluoride levels, the Mississauga city council has since “quietly” reduced their fluoridation level from 1.0 parts per million (ppm) to 0.6ppm — a full 40 per cent drop. […]

Ontario Reduces Recommended Levels of Fluoride in Water

The Province of Ontario, Canada has decided to lower the levels of fluoride added to water via fluoridation programs. The decision, dated September 20, 2000, lowers the recommended level of fluoride in water from 1.0 to 1.2 parts per million to 0.5 to 0.8 parts per million. While the initial proposal was to lower the […]

Squamish Votes NO to Fluoridation

Squamish voters said yes to airport development and no to fluoride in their drinking water in municipal referendums Saturday. Fifty-seven per cent voted yes to an “elector opinion” question on airport development, while 61 per cent voted against fluoridation. Just over 2,100 voters cast ballots — 25 per cent of eligible voters. While the fluoride […]

Stop Fluoride Supplements for Children Under Age 7 Says Canadian Dental Association

HICKSVILLE, N.Y., May 24 /PRNewswire/ — To avoid permanent tooth discoloration, the Canadian Dental Association advises against fluoride supplement use for children before their permanent teeth have erupted, at about 6 or 7 years old. There is “…weak scientific evidence supporting the effectiveness of fluoride supplements.” This was reported at a Canadian Consensus Conference on […]

Canadian Dental Association: Recommending Less Fluoride

The Canadian Dental Association supports the appropriate use of fluorides in the prevention of dental caries as one of the most successful preventive health measures in the history of health care. The availability of fluorides from a variety of sources, however, is a current reality which the practising dentist needs to take into account in […]

Should the City of Toronto Continue to Mass Medicate it’s Residents?

The City of Toronto has been ‘selling’ the drug Fluoride to its residents (by means of providing treated warter to each residence and charging a fee to the owner) without a drug number, as is required by federal law. This is a proposal for an ‘information insert’ to be issued with every City of Toronto […]

Prominent researcher apologizes for pushing fluoride

“Why’d you do it, Doc?  Why’d you toss the fluoride folks overboard?” I had just tracked down Dr. Hardy Limeback, B.Sc., Ph.D in Biochemistry, D.D.S., head of the Department of Preventive Dentistry for the University of Toronto, and president of the Canadian Association for Dental Research. (Whew.) Dr. Limeback is Canada’s leading fluoride authority and, […]

Stop polluting Whitby’s sewers, residents urge

Durham Region councillors should prevent a steel company from dumping any more contaminated chemicals into the town’s sewer system, says a Whitby residents’ group. The province’s environment ministry and the regional works department allowed Lasco Steel to release 3,155,097 litres (694,038 gallons) of industrial waste into Whitby’s sewage treatment plant from May to July because […]