Most people realize the importance of good dental hygiene and good dental habits. Choosing to brush and floss regularly, visiting your dentist, avoiding sweets and other negative nutritional habits are all excellent choices. I am thankful that we live in a world that allows us to have choices. Most people who oppose community water fluoridation […]
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.
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Bangor to Continue Fluoridation
BANGOR – Despite some emotional pleas to stop the nearly 40-year- old practice, city councilors agreed Monday night that the Bangor Water District should continue adding fluoride to the water supply. In doing so, councilors noted that the benefits to residents far outweighed potential risks, a conclusion they reached after hearing from a parade of […]
Debate over fluoride offer pushed back
Despite a $1.5 million offer in February from the California Dental Association Foundation to fluoridate Watsonville water, what promises to be a fiery debate over accepting the money will not hit the City Council for months. According to City Manager Carlos Palacios, concerns linger about the offer that will stall discussion until at least May. […]
Health department warns about flouride
The Carroll County Health Department has sent a letter to Carroll County health professionals, asking them to warn parents against giving fluoridated water to infants. The letter, sent to all county pediatricians, family practitioners, obstetricians, dentists and the Carroll Hospital Center Birthing Center, states that the American Dental Association has released new guidelines on fluoride […]
Fluoride backers defend its use
AUGUSTA – Public health advocates turned out en masse in Augusta on Monday to defend the practice of adding fluoride to public drinking water supplies. The press conference came in response to a flurry of recent challenges to fluoridation in Maine. Speakers at the event took aim at a Bangor pediatrician who has asked the […]
State dental, health groups reject fluoride claims as false
AUGUSTA, Maine –Maine dental and public health organizations Monday condemned anti-fluoride claims made by a Bangor pediatrician, saying they don’t want more Maine towns to change their water-treatment policies on the basis of “misinformation.” Maine Center for Disease Control Director Dora Anne Mills led representatives of state dental, medical, public health and pediatric associations who […]
Referendum a possibility on Holmen fluoridation
A referendum on fluoridation could be in Holmen’s future. Holmen Village Board members got a chance to brush up on their fluoride facts at a recent public hearing. But the hearing left at least two members unsure about how Holmen residents feel on the matter. Quite a few of the people who spoke at the […]
Fluoride can harm teeth, bones
The residents of Mount Desert and Lincoln were wise to vote against water fluoridation. They just did a favor for their children and fellow residents. Fluoride in our water system does not make sense considering the latest human and animal studies. If all clinicians and policymakers read the latest report by the National Research Council, […]
Town votes to remove fluoride from drinking water
MOUNT DESERT, Maine –The Maine Dental Association expressed disappointment after residents voted to remove fluoride from the local drinking water, making Mount Desert the state’s first community to make such a change. The decision came after the Mount Desert Water District said studies conducted during the past few years call into question the safety of […]
Town is first in Maine to reject fluoride
MOUNT DESERT, ME — In a 229 to 42 vote, residents chose to remove fluoride from their drinking water, making this town the first municipality in the state to do so, a March 7 Bar Harbor Times story reported. The town has been adding fluoride since 1963, but the water district, citing recent studies showing […]