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AS the fluoride debate continues to rage in Southampton, a similar discussion is taking place across the pond. Health chiefs in San Diego, one of America’s biggest port cities, are also pushing ahead with plans to fluoridate their tap water. Southampton’s water supplies could be fluoridated by the end of the year if a public […]

Southampton City Primary Care Trust (PCT) have just received news that one of the biggest port cities in the United States, San Diego, has decided to tackle tooth decay by topping up the natural fluoride content in the water supplied to most of its 1.2 million citizens. Both Southampton and San Diego have been largely […]

Southampton will be the first area in the UK to seek the public’s views on adding flouride to their tap water since Health Minister Alan Johnson’s ‘fluoridation for all’ proposal in February. Health chiefs in the city are to begin consultation next month. The move is in light of high levels of tooth decay there […]

What possible good can come from adding a known poison to our water supply? None at all, argues John Graham Secretary of State for Health Alan Johnson announced in February that the Department of Health (DoH) would, over the next three years, make £42 million available to Strategic Health Authorities in England and Wales for […]

THE cost of adding fluoride to thousands of Hampshire homes is a drop in the ocean of dental health spending, health chiefs say. They believe the money spent on the controversial measure is tiny in comparison to the benefits it could bring. If approved, the controversial scheme, which is to be the subject of a […]

They are two men from the same profession who have advised governments on dental policy, but with wildly differing views on adding fluoride to our water. Here they give their reasons for and against. Dr Paul Connett is the director of Fluoride Action Network and a retired professor of chemistry at St Lawrence University in […]

WE don’t want it. That is the overwhelming message from Daily Echo readers on controversial plans to add fluoride to Southampton’s tap water. More than 25,000 votes were cast by phone, post and online with more than two-thirds against the contentious idea. Our snapshot vote comes ahead of a three month public consultation on the […]

MAKE sure you have your say. That is the message from Englands top dental adviser to the people of Southampton considering the contentious plans to add fluoride to tap water. Dr Barry Cockroft is visiting the city tonight to speak to dentists about the impact of fluoridation on dental inequalities. Nearly half of all Southampton […]

DEPENDING on who you listen to, fluoride is either a poison or a tried-and-tested cure for an entirely preventable disease. In Southampton, health chiefs want to add it to the water supply of two-thirds of the city’s residents in a bid to improve chronic dental health, particularly in more deprived areas. They say the increasingly […]

IT’S one of the most contentious issues to hit Southampton in years – and you haven’t been slow to voice your opinions. To fluoride or not to fluoride – that is the controversial question that has had Daily Echo readers voting in their thousands. Votes are still coming thick and fast as residents have their […]