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Fluoridation Does Not Decrease Childhood Cavities
“It may…be that fluoridation of drinking water does not have a strong protective effect against early childhood caries (ECC),” reports dentist Howard Pollick, University of California, and colleagues, in the Winter 2003 Journal of Public Health Dentistry(1). The dental profession promises steep cavity declines in populations who drink water with fluoride added, especially in poor […]
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Palo Alto fluoride measure qualifies for ballot
Palo Alto voters put fluoride, the controversial cavity-fighting chemical, into the city’s drinking water in 1954. This November, they may be asked to take it out. An initiative drive headed by Palo Alto psychologist Susan Willis has gathered 2,543 valid signatures, enough to put the issue on the Nov. 4 ballot, according to City Clerk […]
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Fort Collins fluoridation debate continues
Members of the City Council are leaning toward keeping fluoride in Fort Collins water but indicated at a meeting Tuesday night that the amount of the cavity-fighting substance might need to be adjusted to a less-intense level. The seven-member council met in a study session to hear the recommendations of three boards and the council-appointed […]
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Christchurch targeted
The fluoride debate looks set to rage in Christchurch with the Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) announcing it wants fluoride in the city’s water supply. The CDHB is formulating a policy which will support fluoridation. CDHB chief executive Jean O’Callaghan said Canterbury tooth decay rates were high compared to other parts of New Zealand and […]
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Health Minister’s defence of fluoridation ‘an embarrassment”
Health Minister Micheal Martin’s recent Dail defence of continued fluoridation has been compared to the worst type of Soviet science and the minister himself ‘an embarrassment to the Irish medical profession’. So says US Chemistry Professor, Dr Paul Connett, who has testified to several international investigations into the controversial mass practice including to the Irish […]
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A ‘New and Improved’ Cavity-Fighting Paste
There is no doubt that fluoride helps fight cavities, but Stony Brook oral biologist Dr. Israel Kleinberg has developed what he believes is a better cavity- fighting substance – and he now has evidence to support his theory. The results from a two-year study of the substance – called CaviStat – suggest that children who […]
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Palo Alto’s 49 years of fluoridation going to the voters
Palo Alto Citizens for Safe Drinking Water announced today that a Certificate of Sufficiency of the Initiative Petition was received from the City Clerk’s office on Friday, May 23. The Certificate verifies that the more than 3000 signatures filed on May 15 contained valid signatures in excess of the 2194 necessary to place the Palo […]
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Brisbane targeted with fluoridation
FLUORIDATION of the state’s water supply is one of the first issues the new Australian Medical Association of Queensland president intends to put back on the political agenda. Dr Ingrid Tall, 38, became the youngest AMAQ president when she took over from Dr Russell Stitz yesterday for her first day in office. Dr Tall said […]
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5,000 hit by fluoride poisoning in 15 Karbi Anglong villages
Thousands of villagers have been affected, many of them crippled for life, by drinking water containing excessive levels of fluorides in some parts of Karbi Anglong districts of Assam. The worst affected area was the Takelanguin, where more than 600 people out of the 2,300 surveyed were affected by the hydro-flourosia, according to Chief Engineer […]
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Seaford to begin fluoridation of water to comply with state law
The City of Seaford will begin adding fluoride to its public water system June 2 in compliance with state law. Under Senate Bill 173, passed in 1998, municipal water supplies must fluoridate drinking water. The General Assembly provided funds for each municipality’s set-up costs and the first three years of fluoride costs. The American Dental […]
United States, Delaware