Salt Lake Valley Health Board members discussed water fluoridation last month in an e-mail exchange. And despite officials’ saying it is an important public health issue, don’t ask to see what they talked about. They won’t show you. In a possible breach of state open-meetings law, Health Department Executive Director Patti Pavey fired off an […]
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Council votes down fluoridation
LANCASTER — Lancaster City Council voted down a proposal to put fluoride in city drinking water Monday night, while supporters said they planned to put it on the November election ballot. The vote on the issue came after a two-hour hearing in a packed meeting room where more than two dozen supporters came and just […]
Fluoride debate back before council
Lancaster — Lancaster City Council tonight will take up the issue of whether or not the city should put fluoride in the city’s drinking water. A hearing is set for the regular council meeting at 7 p.m. Monday in the Education Service Center, 111 S. Broad St. Few issues have raised as much controversy in […]
Water companies sue to stop fluoride
Two small water companies are suing to keep fluoride out of their supplies and are raising legal questions about whether it should flow to any of Salt Lake County. Holliday Water Co. and White City Water Improvement District have filed suit in 3rd District Court against Salt Lake County, the Salt Lake Valley Health Department […]
Buffalo Aldermen vote to stop fluoridation
The decision by the Buffalo Board of Aldermen to halt the addition of fluoride into the city’s water supply has caused some to wonder if the city’s aldermen have the right to halt a project that was approved by the city’s voters. Voters approved the issue in April 2000 by a vote of 330 to […]
States with Least Fluoridation have Lowest Tooth Loss
THURSDAY, Dec. 18 (HealthDayNews) — The image of a grinning grandma without any teeth is becoming a thing of the past. A growing number of older Americans still have their teeth, according to new research released Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The first state-by-state analysis of “tooth retention” found […]
Tooth Study Won’t Prompt Smiles in Appalachia
ATLANTA (Reuters) – There was nothing for the older folk of Appalachia to smile about on Thursday in the government’s latest study of toothlessness among the elderly, which found the poverty-stricken region leading the nation in tooth loss. Kentucky and West Virginia have the highest percentage of older adults missing all their natural teeth according […]
Sammamish water district votes to fluoridate
SAMMAMISH — Despite the gnashing of teeth by fluoride opponents, the tooth-decay-fighting compound will be added to this community’s well water sometime next year now that Sammamish Plateau Water and Sewer District commissioners have given the go-ahead. They had little choice, the district’s manager, Ron Little, said yesterday. The water-thin Sammamish district has become a […]
Revote on fluoridation sought
The Salt Lake County Council will consider placing the water fluoridation issue on next year’s ballot after three Salt Lake County cities sent letters asking that the controversial issue be revisited. West Jordan, Sandy and Riverton requested a second vote on the matter. Salt Lake County residents approved the fluoridation measure in 2000 by a […]
S.L. County ruling could delay fluoride
About 24,000 Salt Lake Valley residents will not get fluoride in their water for at least a year. Or will they? The Salt Lake County Council ruled Tuesday that the Holliday Water Co. and the White City Improvement District could delay adding fluoride until Dec. 31, 2004. But the Salt Lake Valley Health Department says […]