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Mauldin Continues To Campaign For Fluoride in City Of Petal Water Supply
Petal dentist Dr. Barbara Mauldin is continuing to touch base with the Petal Board of Aldermen on the issue of adding fluoride to the city’s water system, recently visiting the September 19 board meeting to receive an update on that matter and the reason for the delay in continuing that practice. Mauldin, who has come […]
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City continues debate over price, availability of fluoride
The debate over the feasibility of continuing to add fluoride to the City of Petal’s water supply continues, as officials have yet to come to an agreement over where to get the product, or if that measure would make sense given some of the purported pricing. Petal dentist Dr. Barbara Mauldin, who recently supplied the […]
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City Of Petal Receives Lists of Possible Fluoride Vendors; Officials To Look At Cost, Availability
Now that the Petal Board of Aldermen has been supplied with a list of potential fluoride vendors, city officials are going through the process of contacting those companies for pricing and availability to determine the feasibility of continuing to add that product to the city’s water supply. That list, which includes nine vendors, was shared […]
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City of Petal to decide whether to discontinue adding fluoride to drinking water
Note from Fluoride Action Network: We could only use “fair use” excerpts from this long article which include many quotes from dentist Dr. Barbara Mauldin on why not to end fluoridation. She said that fluoride “beneficially affects every individual, starting as a fetus, then on to the baby, child …” Mauldin is not aware of […]
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Mississippi Department of Health: Benefits of Community Water Fluoridation
Note from Fluoride Action Network: This simplistic fact sheet is worrying inasmuch as it presents misinformation by stating that fluoridation: 1. Protects All Ages. It doesn’t protect the fetus. It allows pregnant women to think fluoridated water is safe to drink. No federal agency in the U.S. has performed a health risk assessment on fluoridation’s […]
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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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