Here’s a sweet idea: a cavity-fighting candy. A recent discovery in dental care could soon make it possible. Researchers at Stony Brook University have found a new way to fight tooth decay by mimicking the powerful re-mineralizing benefits of saliva, long known to naturally protect teeth from harmful, cavity-causing bacteria. A two-year study in the […]
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Tucson dentists: Fluoridate water now
A broken Tucson promise is damaging the health of our children, say angry Tucson dentists, who want it fixed. That promise — made 13 years ago but never fulfilled — was to fluoridate Tucson’s water to reduce childhood tooth decay, still one of the most common and costly health problems afflicting local youngsters. Tucson’s City […]
Fluoride use disputed
In Dutchess County, Poughkeepsie is the only one of 725 public water systems that adds fluoride to drinking water. That could change, though. Commissioner of Health Dr. Michael Caldwell has made it a priority this year to inform public water providers about the benefits of fluoride in cavity prevention, in hopes that more choose to […]
Rockford to discontinue fluoride water treatment
ROCKFORD — The Rockford City Council on Thursday voted to discontinue putting fluoride into its drinking water. “We needed to put new equipment in for it and (the city public works director) didn’t really recommend doing it,” Mayor Harry White said today. Adding fluoride to the drinking water is not required by the Iowa Department […]
County says water company not adding fluoride
Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon has not decided whether the county will sue a small water company for failing to add fluoride as required by public health rules. He wants to consult others before he acts on the request from the Salt Lake Valley Board of Health. “It’s an issue of fairness,” Corroon told […]
NA board reviewing fluoride suit
NORTH ATTLEBORO — The board of health is reviewing the draft of a lawsuit before it is filed in Superior Court in its fight to end fluoridation of the town’s water supply. The board recently received from attorney David Gay the preliminary draft of its complaint against the town for failing to stop fluoridation. Gay […]
Panel hears fluoride debate
Proponents and opponents of fluoride in public drinking water debated before the House Conservation and Environment Committee Monday. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists water fluoridation as among the top 10 public health achievements of the last century, but in the past decade opposition to water fluoridation has increased nationwide. Water fluoridation […]
Fluoride in the water means pollutants within the body
Of late, we’ve once again learned that health officials sometimes change their minds about what is considered healthy and safe. The recent warnings from the Food and Drug Administration about previously approved pain medications and over-the-counter diet aids and cough suppressants demonstrate this. Have you ever wondered what medications and health practices that we accept […]
Health department: Fluoridate or be sued
More than five years after Salt Lake County voters approved fluoride for public drinking systems, an east-bench water company continues to hold out. Now, after granting a series of extensions for Holliday Water Co., county health officials are threatening to sink their teeth into the renegade group with a civil lawsuit. Moments after a closed […]
Sulfuryl fluoride: NY approves pesticide despite unresolved health risks
Fluoride Action Network (FAN) urges the NYS Bureau of Pesticides to rescind their recent approval of a new food fumigant pesticide, sulfuryl fluoride, because serious health risks, raised by environmental groups, remain unanswered by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In a November 28, 2005 letter to Dow AgroSciences, Maureen Serafini, Director, NYS Bureau of […]