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Fluoride foes urge grassroots effort
Nancy Standley got a fluoride treatment at her dentist’s office Thursday morning, but she’ll never do it again. The treatment was simple: Some fluoride-based goop was squeezed into a horseshoe shaped, foam applicator that Standley squished between her teeth for a minute. When the applicator was removed, Standley spit out the excess fluoride solution and […]
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“Facts don’t deter fluoridation foes”
A national expert on fluoridation, brought in to bolster a drive to add fluoride to the city’s drinking water, loaded supporters with facts, endorsements and statistics at a dental summit in Billings on Friday. Judging from the skepticism expressed by some at the meeting, and the open hostility of others, those supporters are sure to […]
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Billings can improve dental health with fluoridation
Taking care of our health is one of the biggest concerns of the 21st century. When it comes to dental health care, the problems can be especially tough. There’s a nationwide shortage of dentists and Montana has slightly fewer dentists than the national average for its population. Montana is short on dental hygienists. Many Montanans […]
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Missoula Faces Fluoridation Push
It is long past time Missoula took advantage of one of the most significant advances in dental health by adding fluoride to our municipal water supply. Last week, the Missoula City-County Health Board, backed by dentists, recommended fluoridated water as part of the solution to the serious levels of dental health problems in the city. […]
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Fluoridation seen as answer to dental crisis in Billings
The proper amount of fluoride in drinking water reduces dental decay. Bozeman, Chester, Colstrip, Hardin, Laurel, Miles City and Scobey add fluoride to public water systems to reach this optimal level. The city of Great Falls naturally has an optimal level of fluoride in its water because it occurs naturally in the Missouri River water. […]
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Billings targeted for Fluoridation
Fluoridating Billings water would be the best way to begin addressing a dental “crisis” in the area, said dentists, nurses and school officials during a dental summit Friday at Deaconess Billings Clinic. Only 14 percent of Yellowstone County’s low income residents saw a dentist last year, according to a community survey presented at the summit. […]
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The Town that Refused to Die
It was the first day of the fall term. Mrs. Lucille Davis had already handed out the spelling assignments, but the children were restless. The heat in the classroom was stifling. Even on the shaded porch of the little schoolhouse, in Garrison, Montana, the thermometer registered 98 degrees. As her third-graders fretfully turned to their […]
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