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Mercury fillings may be affecting dentists
Dear All, For years, most, but not all, dentists have trusted their dental associations when they were assured that mercury amalgams were perfectly safe for their patients and themselves. Now more and more evidence is mounting that neither claim is true. In this latest report, Scotland researchers have found “up to four times the normal […]
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Alcoa costs order to affect hundreds
Aluminium company Alcoa has been ordered to pay the medical costs of a former employee diagnosed with bladder cancer 12 years after working at its Geelong plant. The decision may affect more than 7000 past and present workers. County Court Judge Graeme Hicks yesterday found Geoffrey Stevens’ work as an operator in the plant’s pot […]
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Israel Set to Proceed with Fluoridation
After years of delays, fluoride will routinely be added to the country’s drinking water, if the Mekorot national water company meets its extended deadline to complete 120 fluoridation stations by June 1. The government gave Mekorot 12 more months in June of last year. Health Ministry dental service director Dr. Shlomo Zusman said yesterday the […]
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Toothpaste Terror
Cancer caused by mouthwash? Lethal doses of toothpaste? Natural oral care products are creeping onto store shelves, using scare tactics to increase their sales. Are they attempting a hostile takeover of the oral hygiene market by instilling fear in the American public? You decide. One natural toothpaste company warns on their website, “Check your toothpaste […]
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Group urging end to water fluoridation backs Green candidate
A GROUP opposing the use of fluoride in water has given its backing to Green Party candidate Dan Boyle, who is running in Health Minister Micheál Martin’s constituency. Spokesman for Fluoride Free Water Dr Don McAuley said the group decided to endorse Cllr Boyle because he was well-versed in public health concerns surrounding mandatory fluoridation. […]
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Fluoridation Creating “False Sense of Security” Against Tooth Decay
PRESCHOOLERS in WA are having to undergo major dental work, including emergency extractions, because their teeth have decayed beyond repair. New research shows about 40 per cent of five year olds in WA have tooth decay and 12 per cent were suffering from severe tooth decay. Six per cent of the 1575 children surveyed were […]
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Dental insurer helps with fluoridation
Washington’s largest dental insurer will give Pierce County $420,000 to help pay for fluoridating its drinking water. The grant is the biggest ever awarded by the Washington Dental Service Foundation. The Tacoma-Pierce County Board of Health voted earlier this month to require fluoridation of all county water systems serving more than 5,000 people. The mandate […]
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Dental heath of poor at risk
WORCESTER– City residents on both sides of the fluoridation debate came together yesterday under the banner of “Worcester Dental Watch” to call for solutions to a crisis in dental health problems among the poor. In a show of cohesiveness, proponents and opponents of fluoridation and others said they want action to solve the city’s oral […]
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Greens will focus on quality of life and clean politics
The Green Party pledged to hold a referendum on affordable housing as it set out its strategy to at least double its Dail representation in the general election. Confirming he was applying for the position of partner in the next government, the party leader, Mr Trevor Sargent, said he was confident of gaining three and […]
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Water plant foreman answers “Shaler Mouth” editorial
Dear All, There is a limit to how many silly editorials that we can print. The blood pressures of our readers can only stand so much. Thus I did not share the editorial written by Brian David (Pittsburg Post-Gazette, April 10, 2002). However, I do so now, because there is a fine response to it […]
United States, Pennsylvania