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Alan Smith says he can’t get any clean water to drink because his tap’s poisoned — and that’s the same old tap water everyone else in Dallas is drinking. Every drop, of course, is treated with fluoride to reduce cavities — but each time Smith pours a cup of water, he doesn’t see cavity control. […]

Dr. John Johnson, a Lubbock pediatric dentist, sees cases of fluorosis all the time. Dr. Elizabeth Dannenberg, another Lubbock dentist, sees it too: splotchy, discolored teeth. In rare, severe cases, they even become brittle and chalky. The cause is too much fluoride, and it comes from drinking water. “There’s a lot of fluorosis in West […]

The Bexar Metropolitan Water District board of directors took one sound and one troubling action last week. Board members voted to continue fluoridating water. The vote reversed a previous decision and eliminates the potential for a costly and futile fight with the city of San Antonio. In August, the BexarMet board voted to stop adding […]

The Bexar Metropolitan Water District (BexarMet) has reversed a controversial decision it made only a few months ago. BexarMet board members have voted to put fluoride back in the water. In October, BexarMet ended its contract with its fluoride provider. The move came under fire for going against a city ordinance requiring water providers to […]

Questions arose over City of Austin water quality Nov. 9 at Travis County Commissioners Court when Dr. Paul Connett, professor emeritus of chemistry at St. Lawrence University in New York, persuaded the court to take a serious look at Austin’s fluoridation policy. Attention to the issue has been growing since Austin’s Environmental Board requested an […]

The following includes: • Report by KWES NewsWest 9 • A 2010 Notification letter sent to residents of Midland, fluoride level reported: 4.9 mg/L • A 2008 Notification letter sent to residents of Midland: fluoride level reported: 4.6 mg/L ______________________________________________________________ November 23, 2010: KWES NewsWest 9: City of Midland Reporting High Fluoride Levels in Their […]

Texas Woman’s University students Taylor McGehee and Jennifer Kotlik plan to present a proposal to the Gainesville City Council to request an increase in the levels of fluoride for Gainesville’s water. The proposal is part of the students’ assignment to do a community project for their TWU Community Oral Health Class. McGehee said that they […]

Local anti-fluoridation activists brought in heavy scientific reinforcements last week, with several Austin appearances by Paul Connett, professor emeritus of environmental chemistry at St. Lawrence University, director of the Fluoride Action Network, and co-author of the recently released The Case Against Fluoride (Chelsea Green Publish ing), in which he and two academic colleagues review the […]

Reader comment to Fluoridation Under the Microscope Organized dentistry is behind virtually every fluoridation initiative. Fluoridation is their political battle. Most dentists are fluoridationists and/or support their trade unions which instigate and defend fluoridation. Every day I read dentistry articles. There are dentists who murder, rape, commit Medicaid fraud, do and sell drugs. A Florida […]