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Need to keep open mind on fluoride research: specialist
Fluoride is considered both safe and effective in New Zealand, but the health community needs to monitor new studies and not get stuck in scientific dogma, a specialist in the area says. Southern District Health Board dental public health specialist Tim Mackay yesterday responded to a Canadian study that concluded maternal exposure to higher levels […]
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Letter: Fluoridation moratorium
A bombshell study, published in the American Medical Association’s journal, JAMA Pediatrics, found that children born to mothers exposed to fluoridated water had lower IQs than children whose mothers weren’t. ‘‘The effects of this study are comparable to the effects of lead, and if these findings are true there should be as much concern about […]
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Anti-fluoride billboard removed
A Fluoride Free NZ billboard outside Dunedin Airport on Sunday, and being removed yesterday. PHOTOS: DAVID LOUGHREY/GREGOR RICHARDSON A large anti-fluoride billboard outside Dunedin Airport lasted just a couple of days before workers were instructed to tear it down. The billboard, which said fluoridated water “lowers kids’ IQs”, was not the sort of message the […]
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Hastings water set to remain fluoride free until 2021, sparking concern in HBDHB
The water in Hastings remains fluoride-free, and it is causing major concern among oral hygiene staff at Hawke’s Bay District Health Board. Fluoride was supposed to be added back to the water last year but Hastings District Council group manager asset management Craig Thew said “the dosing system at the treatment plants was being used […]
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Fluoride still not in Hastings water supply, a year after the council said it would be
Fluoride was supposed to be added to the Hastings water supply a year ago, but it still hasn’t been added, despite the local DHB’s “serious and ongoing concerns” about the impact on dental health. Hastings District Council removed fluoride from the town water supply since the Havelock North gastro-outbreak in August 2016. Since the outbreak the […]
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Time to listen to Pro-fluoridation agencies raising alarms
The O’Brien Institute for Public Health at Calgary University has just released their report on fluoridation. This institute has, up to now, been staunchly in favour of fluoridation. However, yesterday, with regards to fluoride’s effect on the brain, they say “The new emerging studies in this domain need to be tracked very closely, and carefully […]
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It’s time to stop kicking the fluoride question down the road
\ TOM LEE/STUFF Peter Dunne introduced the Health (Fluoridation of Drinking Water) Amendment Bill when he was Associate Health Minister. OPINION: Some bulky items, a capital gains tax, less punitive approaches to criminal justice and substantive welfare reform, seem to have been held up at the courier in Jacinda Ardern’s much-vaunted year of delivery. But if […]
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Fluoride spills prompts emergency callout to Dunedin water plant
Dunedin senior station officer Chris Lind says a fluoride spill at a water treatment plant has had no effect on the city’s water supply. Firefighters in breathing apparatus and protective suits were hosed down after a fluoride spill at a water treatment plant. The incident happened at Dunedin’s Mt Grand water treatment station on Wednesday afternoon. Fire […]
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Dentist wants kids brushing programmes in schools
A Whangarei dentist says the Government should be funding tooth brushing programmes in schools if it wants to reduce waiting lists for children’s oral surgery. Dr Dave Stallworthy has operated on scores of young children with rotten teeth in his 40 year career, and he says it’s frustrating that little has changed in decay rates […]
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NZ’s dental healthcare system needs change
High cost means more than half of New Zealand’s young adults don’t access dental care, writes Jonathan Broadbent. In New Zealand, wealth determines dental health. Inequalities in untreated tooth decay are wider in New Zealand than in Australia, Canada or the United States. The latest New Zealand Health Survey, run annually by the Ministry of […]
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