As part of its brightSMILES Dental Partnership, Sierra Health Foundation has awarded three grants to agencies involved in improving the oral health of Yolo County residents. A $60,000 grant was awarded to CommuniCare Health Centers for school-based oral health services, the Sacramento District Dental Foundation was awarded a $120,000 grant to support its Smiles for […]
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Opponents vow to fight fluoridation decision in Yarmouth
Some Yarmouth residents are promising to continue their fight after the board of health voted to approve fluoridation of the town’s water. A group of residents went to Town Hall to obtain the papers required for a petition of the board’s vote early Tuesday morning. “We went there bright and early,” said Vi Pacitto of […]
Today’s letters: Director of Hillsborough County Water Resources addresses fluoridation
As a public utility which provides high-quality drinking water to more than 350, 000 people, Hillsborough County Water Resource Services receives numerous advisories, statements, position papers, opinions and articles from a wide variety of sources. Our staff carefully evaluates each new development in the industry. Medical issues in particular can be extremely complex and confusing, […]
Arsenic in Fluoride? CDC says YES
Fluoridation chemicals are allowed to contain arsenic and other toxins New York — March 2007 — Trace amounts of arsenic are found in fluoride chemicals added to drinking water supplies, reports the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) website. (1) Fluoridation is a controversial attempt to reduce tooth decay in tap-water consumers. Fluoridation chemicals – […]
Poughkeepsie anti-fluoridation campaign on the Craigslist website
Two years ago, fluoridation was halted in Poughkeepsie due to mechanical problems. Health officials now want to resume fluoridation, but the water board chairman believes it should not resume because the chemical poses a threat to the health of the community. If you oppose fluoridation in Poughkeepsie, express yourself with a “Say No To Fluoride” […]
Humboldt Bay Water District debates fluoridation
HUMBOLDT – As the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District proceeds with a study on the prospect of providing drinking water fluoridation to its seven municipal customers, speakers at a hearing showed fear that the process will be tilted by influential fluoridation advocates. The water district’s board of directors again took up the question of water […]
Effort to fluoridate more water in Oregon ends for this session
A bill backing statewide water fluoridation to prevent tooth decay is stuck in the Joint Ways and Means Committee without the votes to move it to either house before the Legislature adjourns. That means Oregon will retain, at least until next year, its ranking as the third-least fluoridated state in the nation, behind Hawaii and […]
Yarmouth Board of Health approves fluoridation plan
SOUTH YARMOUTH — Barring the success of a petition drive, Yarmouth will become the first town on the Cape to fluoridate its water supply. A small but vocal group of citizens was disappointed yesterday when members of the town’s board of health voted 3-2 in favor of the proposal. “You’re full of baloney,” Domenic Pacitto […]
Yarmouth says ‘yes’ to fluoride
Yarmouth – It should have been a routine vote for the Yarmouth Board of Health. Instead, it turned into a job for the Yarmouth Police Department. Board members approved fluoridation of the town’s water with a vote of three-to-two Monday afternoon at Yarmouth Town Hall, making Yarmouth the first town on Cape Cod to move […]
Yarmouth health board to vote today on fluoridation
SOUTH YARMOUTH — After a series of hearings on the widely debated issue, members of the board of health will vote on fluoridating the town’s water supply at their meeting at 3 p.m. today. “We have really bent over backward to be fair and let everyone have their opinion,” said Dr. Benjamin Gordon, the board’s […]