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Mississippi to use $204,642 of a CDC grant to promote water fluoridation
Excerpts: … The Mississippi Department of Health held a hearing Monday as it determines how to spend more than $2.175 million in federal funds on public health projects statewide. The Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant program is a federal program from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that provides the states, […]
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Brandon dentist sues, accuses nation’s largest dental insurer of price-fixing, conspiracy
The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal court in Jackson. One in three Americans with dental insurance get it through Delta Dental. Dentists are not fairly compensated for services, lawsuit says. A Brandon dentist has filed a class-action lawsuit against Delta Dental, the nation’s largest dental insurer, accusing the company of price-fixing and conspiracy to […]
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Picayune: Fluoride still benefiting city residents
All Pearl River County water systems continue to add fluoride to the water for the benefit of the residents. Adding fluoride to a community’s water supply can prevent 25 percent of tooth decay over a person’s lifetime, according to the Mississippi State Department of Health’s website. Fluoride strengthens tooth enamel and promotes tooth enamel repair, […]
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Minnesota, 3M reach settlement ending $5 billion lawsuit
A $5 billion water-pollution lawsuit, which pitted 3M Co. against Minnesota’s attorney general, ended on the day it was supposed to go to trial Tuesday. In a surprise settlement, 3M agreed to give $850 million to the state for water quality programs in the east metro. “This money is dedicated to fixing the problem,” said […]
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Gloster offered fluoridation system for free
GLOSTER — State health department officials Tuesday offered to install a free fluoridation system in the town water supply if local officials approve. The town used to provide the tooth decay-fighting chemical in its water supply but quit in 1999 after the dispensing machine broke and it would cost $12,000 to replace… *You need a […]
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Brookhaven receives $195,000 grant for fluoridation equipment
Brookhaven will get a nearly $200,000 grant to replace fluoridation equipment that is already over 10 years old. The Brookhaven Board of Aldermen approved the $195,000 grant Tuesday for Mitchell Technical Services, the contractor for the Brookhaven Water Treatment Plant Replacing the fluoridation equipment will make it easier to provide fluoride for the city, said […]
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Pass Christian: Council to consider fluoridation grant from State Health Department tonight
CONSIDER HEARING FROM MARSHA PARKER OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REGARDING A GRANT FOR WATER FLUORIDATION. Print PDF
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Greenwood editorial: Backward to not fluoridate water
For decades, there have been periodic pushes for Greenwood to get with the health community’s mainstream and add cavity-fighting fluoride to its drinking water. Every time there has been a push, the Greenwood Utilities Commission has bowed to the forces of irrational paranoia and done nothing. Let’s hope the latest initiative from the state Department […]
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Greenwood: Fluoridate or not? Dentist says it would improve both water and teeth
Dr. Johnny Smith knows as well as anyone that Greenwood’s teeth need help. After 27 years of peering into mouths here, the dentist can recognize patients who grew up in other areas that have fluoridated water supplies because their teeth are stronger. “I’ve seen tooth decay in all ages, from little kids all the way […]
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UNC Students’ Research Contributes to Fluoridated Water Legislation in Mississippi
A team of graduate students in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Gillings School of Global Public Health’s department of health policy and management has helped convince the Mississippi state legislature to require communities in the state to fluoridate their water. The students include Ms. Lauren Brown, Dr. Kim Hammersmith, Ms. Ashley […]
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