Excerpts: 1. Protect your baby’s teeth with fluoride. Ask a dentist or doctor if your water has fluoride in it. If it doesn’t, ask about other kinds of fluoride (such as fluoride varnish or drops) that can help keep your baby’s teeth healthy. 2. Check and clean your baby’s teeth. At about age 2 (or […]
With its sights firmly set on uncovering hidden sugars in Australian diets and shopping trolleys, this year’s Dental Health Week campaign may very well be the wake-up call we need to tackle some pervasive issues within the nation’s oral health habits. In the first part of our series focusing on the state of Australia’s oral […]
Abstract Early exposure to sweet tastes predicts similar food preferences and eating behavior in later life and is associated with childhood obesity. The aim of this study was to explore the associations of early (during the first year of life) and subsequent intake of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) with 4-y caries trajectories among Scottish young children. […]
Dr. Elisabeth Warder can spot the difference between a Cheney resident and a Spokane resident by the sight of their smile. As a longtime dentist with the nonprofit CHAS Health, Warder said the people of Cheney just have fewer cavities. “Here in Spokane, we’re behind. We’re decades behind,” she said. Warder was among three public […]
Date: July 29, 2020 Time: 10:00-11:30am (PT) Place: ZOOM Register to join: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7m6Scf_QSWWzZYohMoYk4Q The American Dental Association is celebrating 75 Years of Community Water Fluoridation in the United States through a series of webinars throughout July 2020. This is the fourth of four webinars in the 75th Anniversary of Community Water Fluoridation ADA Webinar Series. We […]
Ten years ago, a push to put fluoride in our water failed, barely, at the polls. The forces of fluoridation vowed to keep up the fight. Unfortunately, it’s the forces against fluoride who have kept fighting. And they’re winning, big time, using the same tools that flat-earthers drag out to deny global warming or argue […]
Last November, the International Ski Federation announced in a press release the banning of fluorinated waxes starting with the 2020-2021 race season. FIS states, “The use of fluorinated ski waxes, which have been shown to have a negative environmental and health impact were banned for all FIS disciplines from the 2020/2021 season.” Behind the scenes, […]
Date: July 27, 2020 Time: 10:00-11:30am (PT) Place: ZOOM Register to join: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oBNVxwQQQeS3zSOxEHicSA The American Dental Association is celebrating 75 Years of Community Water Fluoridation in the United States through a series of webinars throughout July 2020. This is the third of four webinars in the 75th Anniversary of Community Water Fluoridation ADA Webinar Series Healthcare […]
The DOD shipped nearly 2 million pounds from 25 states; Private entities also delivered materials to be burned Norlite’s incineration facility has burned 2 million pounds of materials containing PFAS. Photo – Paul Buckowski – Albany Times Union The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYDEC) has released information on the sources of […]
Note from the Fluoride Action Network The author of this article, M. A. Lennon, is a long-time proponent of fluoridation and a member of the British Fluoridation Society. His third reference in the letter below is to an article by Jennifer Meyer that was published in the STAT in which she smeared FAN. We submitted […]
