NORTH ATTLEBORO — The board of health delivered an order to halt fluoridation of the town’s water supply to the department of public works on Monday. Health board Chairwoman Diane Battistello drafted and hand-delivered the cease and desist order, which demands that fluoridation be stopped immediately. The order was written following the board’s 2 to […]
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Dentists Celebrate Fluoridation Where Children Suffer With Cavities
NEW YORK, July 26 /PRNewswire/ — While Chicago children suffer with dental pain, limousines delivered dignitaries to a large white tent, ringed with yellow shirted security guards, where dentists and others, on government payrolls, kicked off a four-day 60th birthday party for water fluoridation replete with ice sculptures, free duffle bags, food and specially made […]
Is ADA impeding access to dental care?
There go the dentists again, not the public health dentists who support dental therapists and broader access to dental care, but the dentists in private practice represented by the American Dental Association (ADA), attempting to deny children with toothaches and rotting and infected teeth the care they need. This is the same old garbage they […]
Fluoride bill left decaying in Salem
A bill to promote the fluoridation of city water supplies has apparently died in the Oregon Legislature just as new questions are being raised about the practice. House Bill 2025 would have required cities with 10,000 people or more to add fluoride to their water systems in order to prevent tooth decay. The House passed […]
Fluoridation, Cancer: Did Researchers Ask The Right Questions?
WHEN HEALTH OFFICIALS decided to add fluoride to the water supply of Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1945, they plunged ahead despite the lack of a rigorous, large-scale study of the risks and benefits. And for most of the next 60 years, fluoridation research has gone pretty much like that. It has not been science’s finest […]
BONING UP ON FLUORIDE
In Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1964 movie, Dr. Strangelove, the deranged General Jack D. Ripper thinks he knows a secret communist plot to destroy Americans from within. “A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice,” he says ominously. He’s referring to water fluoridation, “the […]
Goldsboro temporarily halts fluoride water treatment
Goldsboro’s public utilities director says a decision to stop putting fluoride in city water is a temporary measure pending testing by state authorities. The injection of fluoride into the city’s water was halted June 30, said Karen Brashear, who cited a recent study released by a doctor at the University of North Carolina-Asheville that prompted […]
Fluoride remains hot issue in Arcata
Arcata City Council meetings have become heated in recent months, due largely in part to the seemingly polar stance some residents and local health officials have adopted over the issue of water fluoridation. Fluoride, a substance used to reduce the incidence of dental cavities, has been added to Arcata city water since the early 1960s, […]
Crackdown urged on mercury waste from dentistry
King County dentists have taken the lead statewide in reducing toxic mercury going down the drain and out into the environment. Now a coalition of environmental groups, labeling a voluntary state program to cut dental mercury waste a failure, wants a statewide crackdown. The voluntary two-year agreement, in which the Washington State Dental Association promised […]
Fluoridation makes ballot in Bellingham
The Bellingham City Council took no action Monday on a voter initiative to fluoridate the city’s drinking water, essentially sending the measure to November’s ballot without expressing an opinion on it. The council voted Monday night to table the matter until an Aug. 22 meeting, but the initiative will have been put on the ballot […]