Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday. A routine, $80 tooth extraction might have saved him. If his mother had been insured. If his family had not lost its Medicaid. If Medicaid dentists weren’t so hard to find. If his mother hadn’t been focused on getting a dentist for his brother, who had six […]
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Water fluoridation and the quality of information available online
Background: The Internet has transformed the way in which people approach their health care, with online resources becoming a primary source of health information. Little work has assessed the quality of online information regarding community water fluoridation. This study sought to assess the information available to individuals searching online for information, with emphasis on the […]
Water supplier to retain fluoride
After a months-long debate, including a lively public hearing, members of the North Baldwin Utilities board have voted to continue adding fluoride to the area’s water supply until the end of the year. The board’s decision is the latest move after it voted in September to end the utility’s 26-year practice of adding the chemical […]
Fluoride Back – with conditions
When North Baldwin Utilities put it’s last drop of fluoride in the water supply earlier this month, NBU had no plans of ordering more fluoride. But, Tuesday NBU put the chemical back into the system. Jason Padgett with NBU says, “I think the board of directors have thought that it was best for the community […]
Teachers Oppose Fluoride Supplement Program
SLIPPERY ROCK — Slippery Rock School District personnel are seemingly unanimous in their recommendation that the district stop distributing fluoride tablets to elementary students. The teachers’ union opposes the practice. The district superintendent does too. Monday night, the district’s two elementary school nurses weighed in on the issue at the board meeting at the Slippery […]
Soldier in fluoride fight marches on
ORMOND BEACH — Clutching a fat stack of papers — most of them Web site printouts — Jim Schultz strode to the microphone in front of the Daytona Beach City Commission one evening last month, the highlight of his two-year campaign against fluoride. What the medical establishment considers one of its greatest public health achievements, […]
South Bay’s water will be fluoridated with MWD deal
Fluoridated water will be flowing from South Bay taps this fall for the first time when a regional water supplier begins to add fluoride to the supplies it delivers to the six-county area in the cause of dental health. While Los Angeles and Long Beach have long had fluoridated water, smaller cities like those in […]
Need for fluoride questioned
Since 1963, the Town of Mount Desert has been adding toxins to its drinking water by public mandate, according to water district manager Paul Slack. It was 44 years ago when the town voted to added fluoride to the water, which supplies about 1,000 connections in Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor. The intended purpose was […]
Metropolitan Water District Urged to Warn Customers of Fluoride Risks to Infants
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21 — Plans to add fluoride to Southern Californians’ tap water this summer are raising concerns that parents may not know of the potential risks of using fluoridated water to mix infant formula. The Metropolitan Water District (MWD), which supplies 18 million people in six counties throughout the region, in July will […]
GRU hit by nationwide shortage of fluoride
Gainesville Regional Utilities has had to stop adding fluoride to its water supply because of a chemical shortage affecting utilities throughout the state, GRU officials said Tuesday. Though the utility’s supply of fluoridating chemicals ran out late last month, officials said a few weeks without the chemicals should not reduce the effects of fluoridation, which […]