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Fluoride wins in Wells area water district
Kennebunk, Kennebunkport & Wells Water District customers will soon drink fluoridated water. Residents of the seven towns served by the water district – from York to Biddeford Pool – voted Tuesday to add the chemical to the water supply. The measure won in each town and passed with 61 percent of the vote. Overall, fluoride […]
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Water fluoridation plan on ballots in York County
Seven communities in York County will vote Nov. 5 on a controversial proposal to fluoridate their water. The communities are Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Wells, Arundel, Ogunquit, the coastal section of Biddeford and the Cape Neddick portion of York. A group of dentists in southern Maine is urging voters to approve fluoridation. The American Dental Association says […]
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Kennebunk dentist leads fight for fluoridation
Lisa Howard has seen both sides of the tooth. As a Minnesota dentist, she practiced in one town where residents drank fluoridated water, and another where they drank untreated well water. In the well-water town, her patients had many more cavities, she said. “It proved to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that (fluoride) […]
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Fluoridation on fall ballot in Boothbay Harbor
“I’m dealing with a lot of people in their 20s with severe cavities” said Boothbay Harbor dentist Dr. Doug Bevins. “Am I an advocate of fluoridation? Absolutely.” Fluoridation of public water supplies will be on the ballot in November in Boothbay Harbor, Boothbay and Southport. Selectmen in each town have voted in favor of a […]
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Fluoridation considered for KKW water
A proposal to fluoridate water in the Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Wells Water District has begun making its way toward a November ballot vote. Unanimous selectmen’s votes May 13 in Kennebunk and May 23 in Kennebunkport gave the proposal two of the four town votes necessary to qualify for the ballot. A Kennebunk group, many of […]
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Maine Mandates Dentists Disclose Mercury Amalgam Toxicity
Maine Governor Angus King today signed the most advanced bill in the United States requiring dentists to inform their patients that amalgam dental fillings contain a large percentage of the toxic element mercury, which can be harmful to the wearer’s health. In his preliminary remarks before signing the bill, Gov. King noted that Maine has […]
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Norridgewock votes no to fluoridation
NORRIDGEWOCK — Voters spoke out Monday in favor of tearing down the town’s historic but unsafe concrete-arch bridge and keeping their water the way it is — without fluoride. Referendum voting on three of the most controversial questions facing the town — including the bridge, fluoride in the water and an environmental-health-consultant fund — took […]
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