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NE England: Water fluoridation gains momentum with new website
Support for community water fluoridation continues to gain momentum with the unveiling of a new web page supporting schemes in the North East of England (https://onepartpermillion.co.uk/north-east). The web page is part of the One Part Per Million campaign initiated and funded by the local dental committee movement and is in readiness for public consultations in […]
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Calderdale: Council to explore possibility of flouridation of water to improve dental health of children
A debate on children’s dental health ended with a request to council officers to explore the possibility of whether water supplies could be fluoridated. Acknowledging it is a controversial subject, members of Calderdale Council’s children and young people’s scrutiny board thought it was nevertheless an option worth exploring. Coun Stephen Baines, who represents Northowram and […]
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Letters: ‘Tony is happy to vote Green but their politics in County Durham is in a pickle’
TONY KELLY from Crook is happy to vote for the Green Party (HAS, Dec 6). But their politics in County Durham is in a pickle, or more correctly a soup (of a chemical nature). In his critique of Joy Warren (Co-ordinator, UK Freedom From Fluoride Alliance) printed here on May 4, 2019, he calls her […]
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Letters: ‘Proposal to fluoridate Darlington’s water supply run contrary to the latest scientific findings’
THE ongoing discussions regarding the proposal to fluoridate Darlington’s water supply run contrary to the latest scientific findings. A recent Canadian study published in JAMA Pediatrics, a publication of the Journal of the American Medical Association, one of the world’s foremost medical resources, found that exposure to higher levels of fluoride during pregnancy is associated […]
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Call for ‘free vote’ on adding flouride to Sunderland’s water supply – here are the arguments for and against
Controversial plans to add fluoride to the water supply in a bid to improve dental and oral health should be put to a ‘free vote’, city bosses have said. Leaders at Sunderland City Council are considering the proposals, which experts say could reduce the number of people suffering cavities. But there are also concerns about […]
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The fluoride varnish taste test
Hussein Hassanali assesses the effectiveness and value of four preventive fluoride varnish applications for children. I don’t need to lay out the benefits of fluoride; we all know its importance in maintaining oral health and its role in preventive dentistry. With the shift towards minimally invasive dentistry, the evidence base for fluoride and remineralisation continues […]
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Labour opens coffers wide to offer free dental checks
Party says £450m policy will save on hospital bills from adults with teeth problems who cannot afford to visit dentists Jeremy Corbyn arrives at meeting on the Labour manifesto in London this afternoon Dominc Lipinski/PA A Labour government would introduce free dental check-ups for everyone in England, party chiefs have agreed. At an estimated cost […]
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‘Water fluoridation is a no brainer’
Alan Johnson, the former Labour MP and Minister for Health, explains to Caroline Holland why he is now working with the dental profession in support of water fluoridation. Alan Johnson (left) with Chair of the British Fluoridation Society (BFS), Steve Bedser Q. You are one of the political figureheads for the water fluoridation movement – […]
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Fluoride campaigners call for Bedford Borough Council to hold overdue consultation
Campaigners from Fluoride Free Bedford say they have been waiting for three years for a consultation to end a contract with Anglian Water to prevent fluoride returning to the Borough’s water supply. In 2016, the borough council voted in favour of the Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee’s recommendation to adopt the precautionary principle on the issue of water fluoridation, ending the (almost) fifty […]
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Fluoride scheme to tackle tooth decay will not reach Teesdale
A MAJOR project to slash levels of tooth decay in County Durham will not be rolled out in Barnard Castle and other parts of Teesdale. Durham County Council has approved the next stage of £250,000-a-year plans to add fluoride to the county’s water supplies. But the scheme is not expected to reach southern parts of […]
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