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Delta Dental wins $6 million for children’s dental health
California’s largest dental health plan announced plans today to distribute nearly $6 million in state and federal funds to improve the oral health of low-income children lacking private dental insurance. Contracts signed between California’s Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board (MRMIB) and Delta Dental of California will pave the way for more than 35 individual projects […]
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Dentists Award the Cavity-prone and Toothless
“Fluoridation honors” were bestowed upon many communities (1), which happen to have the highest cavity and tooth loss rates, by the American Dental Association (ADA), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the American Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors (AASTDD), reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation (NYSCOF). Fluoride added to […]
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Councilmen question fluoride vote
LANCASTER — The debate over whether to put fluoridation of the city’s water on November’s general election ballot continued in City Council Monday night. Councilman Rudy Touvell, D-6th Ward, said he was opposed to the city putting the issue on the ballot without supporters getting the required number of signatures to get it on the […]
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Fluoride Causes a Close Call for an Area Child
(KAAL)– It looked like Kool-Aid…it tasted like bubble gum…so he swallowed it. Tonight a northern Iowa couple is thankful their 3-year-old son survived fluoride poisoning unharmed. Last week Josef Dethlefsen drank several ounces of his sister’s anticavity fluoride rinse. Hours later Josef had a seizure. He had to be treated at St. Mary’s intensive care […]
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Fluoride floods water supply
PLEASANTON — Students at Alisal Elementary School and Amador Valley High School were warned not to drink the water Monday morning after a work crew accidentally released a high concentration of fluoride into the water system the night before. City officials said the crew was working to replace a valve at the water pumping station […]
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School alerted to fluoride release
By Sam Richards CONTRA COSTA TIMES An accidental release of high levels of fluoride into Pleasanton’s city water system early Monday appears to have had few, if any, adverse effects, say city officials. Contractors had shut down the water system to replace a valve at the city’s pumping station at Santa Rita Road and Black […]
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Fluoride lawsuit delayed until fall
VISTA —- The final decision on whether Escondido can fluoridate its water will have to wait about five more months, officials said Monday. Although jury selection in a trial set to determine the issue was scheduled Monday, Superior Court Judge Jacqueline Stern decided late Friday to postpone the trial until Oct. 12 because of scheduling […]
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Fluoride mandate loses in court
The Washington State Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Board overstepped its authority when it mandated that local water providers add fluoride to drinking water. The ruling reversed a February 2003 decision by the Pierce County Superior Court that had upheld the board’s broad power to regulate and supervise public health. The […]
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Court rules fluoridation can’t be ordered
The Tacoma-Pierce County Board of Health doesn’t have the authority to order water systems in the county to fluoridate their water, the state Supreme Court ruled yesterday. Individual water districts are empowered by state law to decide whether to include the dental-cavity-preventing chemical in their water supplies, the justices said in the 6-3 decision. The […]
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Pelham debates fluoridation question again
Standing before Pelham’s City Council for its recent Youth Government Day, Kamryn Sherman asked the city to consider putting fluoride in its water system. The issue was simple for the fifth-grader from Valley Intermediate School: Fluoride helps your teeth. But for some grown-ups in Shelby County, placing anything in the water is cause for concern. […]
United States, Alabama