Professional guidelines suggest this would be too much toothpaste on a young child’s brush. Children ages 3 to 6 should use no more than a pea-size amount of fluoride toothpaste, officials say.CreditCreditElaine Thompson/Associated Press Many parents are squeezing potentially unhealthy amounts of toothpaste on their children’s brushes, health officials warned in a study released on […]
News Archive
Welcome to the Fluoride Action Network News Archive. The FAN News Archive serves as an historical repository for fluoride news stories, positive or negative. Since FAN catalogs all news stories on fluoride, our news section remains a reliable database of all published fluoride news.
Our news database is categorized by country, state/province, and industry. This collection of articles is constantly being updated with the most recent global news on fluoride-related issues and events.
Colgate eliminated triclosan from its toothpaste. Could a ban be on the way?
Colgate-Palmolive’s newest product, a toothpaste called Colgate Total SF, rolled out this week with a multimillion-dollar marketing campaign that includes a celebrity-studded commercial that will air during Sunday’s Super Bowl. Colgate Total SF is a reformulated version of the company’s best-selling toothpaste, the antibacterial Colgate Total. The ad campaign stresses the supposed benefits of the new product […]
Fluoridex
Generic Name: sodium fluoride Dosage Form: paste, dentifrice Medically reviewed by Drugs.com. Last updated on Feb 1, 2019. Disclaimer: This drug has not been found by FDA to be safe and effective, and this labeling has not been approved by FDA. For further information about unapproved drugs, click here. On This Page Indications and Usage […]
CDC: Use of Toothpaste and Toothbrushing Patterns Among Children and Adolescents — United States, 2013–2016
Fluoride use is one of the main factors responsible for the decline in prevalence and severity of dental caries and cavities (tooth decay) in the United States (1). Brushing children’s teeth is recommended when the first tooth erupts, as early as 6 months, and the first dental visit should occur no later than age 1 […]
Pediatric oral health: Fluoride use recommendations
Dental caries (cavities) continues to be the most chronic disease of childhood.1 Although dental caries is multifactorial in its etiology, fluoride is an important chemotherapeutic intervention to strengthen teeth and prevent disease progression.2 The safety of fluoride has been demonstrated in numerous research studies and community water fluoridation heralded as one of the top 10 […]
Study: Many small kids in US are using too much toothpaste
NEW YORK (AP) – Too many young kids are using too much toothpaste, increasing their risk of streaky or splotchy teeth when they get older, according to a government survey released Thursday. About 40 percent of kids ages 3 to 6 used a brush that was full or half-full of toothpaste, even though experts recommend […]
Making the case for fluoridated water
Note from the Fluoride Action Network: FAN issued a press release on Juneau, mentioned in the article below, on Jan 9, 2019, titled: Juneau fluoridation study: more hype than evidence, stating: 1) The Juneau study looked at a single city at two times separated by 9 years. There is no information on what happened before, between, […]
The U.S. Military Plans to Keep Incinerating Toxic Firefighting Foam, Despite Health Risks
The U.S. military is moving ahead with plans to collect and destroy unused firefighting foam that contains the hazardous chemicals PFOS and PFOA. But in trying to solve one environmental problem related to these persistent chemicals, which have caused massive drinking water contamination, the Defense Department may be creating another. More than 3 million gallons of […]
Colgate Total Toothpaste to Relaunch Without Controversial Chemical
With a launch party on Jan. 31 and a coming Super Bowl commercial, Colgate-Palmolive Co. is making a big splash for its new version of Colgate Total toothpaste. As part of the reformulation, the company is cutting a controversial ingredient that it’s stood by for years. Colgate-Palmolive has already removed the substance — triclosan — […]
Tooth loss among older adults according to poverty status in the United States from 1999 through 2004 and 2009 through 2014.
Abstract Methods: The authors used data from the 1999 through 2004 and the 2009 through 2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys to assess changes in tooth loss in adults 50 years or older. The authors evaluated changes in edentulism, retaining all teeth, and having a functional dentition (21 or more natural teeth) according to […]