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Layton Utah resists fluoride mandate
LAYTON — Frustrated over rising costs to fluoridate the city’s drinking water, Layton City leaders will swim against the tide of what has become a controversial public health mandate. Council members at a Thursday work meeting balked at fluoridating the city’s five wells, citing implementation costs they say are four times higher than Davis County […]
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Decaying dental care a concern
Catherine was off her food for weeks before finally admitting to a pain in her mouth. When she opened wide, the culprit seemed obvious: an adult molar blocked by an undislodged baby tooth was pushing sideways through the 10-year-old’s gum. But when her mother phoned the dental clinic at her central Auckland school to arrange […]
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Should Congress force the pro-fluoridation camp to defend the practice?
Dear All, As we get closer to the day ( May 6) set aside by the US EPA for a one-on-one debate on fluoridation as part of their Science Forum, there is still no acceptance from anyone in the CDC, or other agencies of the USPHS, or any other organization, to defend this practice. The […]
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Report shows kids need dental care
Scores of children in Peel Region are suffering from dental disease because they don’t have access to proper care, a Peel Region health report shows. A survey of school-aged youngsters in Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon conducted in 2001-02 identified “significant dental disease among Peel children,” the 2003 Children’s Dental Health Report stated. The oral health […]
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Tooth decay in children getting worse
QUEENSLAND toddlers have more rotting teeth than children living interstate and their dental health is getting worse every year. A major new study of children’s dental records has found the average five-year-old Queenslander has more than two decayed, missing or filled teeth – almost twice the national average. Of the 53,000 Queensland children between five […]
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Fort Collins Health Board: Fluoride OK
The Larimer County Board of Health “strongly” recommended Fort Collins continue fluoridating its tap water in the latest installment of a two-year debate marked by anxieties over public health. The board’s five-page consensus findings released Thursday now go to the City Council, which could remove the liquid form of fluoride known as hydrofluorosilicic acid, or […]
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REPORT: 66 Million People at Risk
NEW DELHI: As many as 200 districts in the country suffer from high fluoride concentration in ground water. Spread over 17 states and affecting a population of some 25 million, another 66 million are described as a “population at risk”. So says a recently-concluded WHO-UNICEF sponsored study on the country’s water supply and sanitation. The […]
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Fluoridate water in Caledon, report says
Caledon’s water supply should be fluoridated to combat a higher incidence of dental disease among children in the area, a Peel Region report says. Health and public works officials are conducting a cost benefit analysis of adding fluoride to 13 communal wells in the town before a final recommendation to council, says a report from […]
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Tooth decay on rise as children shun tap water
Increasing consumption of bottled water and junk food could be to blame for the continuing decline in the dental health of Australia’s children, experts said yesterday. Five-year-olds experienced a 22 per cent increase in decayed baby teeth over the past four years, while six-year-olds had an 8 per cent increase in the same period, a […]
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Watsonville’s city attorney files injunction arguing against fluoride
The debate over the fate of Watsonville’s water has moved to the courtroom. On Friday, City Attorney Alan Smith filed a request for an injunction of relief with the Santa Cruz County Superior Court to determine whether the city must comply with a state order to fluoridate the city’s water. Smith’s injunction marks a change […]
United States, California