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Bill Proposed in Utah to Protect Water Companies from Fluoridation Liabilities
Some health department officials are suspicious of a new piece of legislation they say may serve as a roadblock to water fluoridation in Salt Lake and Davis counties. Senate Majority Leader Steve Poulton, R-Holladay, says he has a bill in the works that would create a task force to study the implementation of water fluoridation. […]
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Fluoridation & Arsenic: Implications of EPA’s New Regulations
As some of you may have heard, the EPA has just issued its ruling on the new Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for arsenic in drinking water. On Wednesday of this week, the EPA ruled that the new MCL for arsenic in drinking water be lowered from 50 parts per billion to 10 parts per billion. […]
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Will Sulfuryl Fluoride be Used as Fumigant for Strawberries? Dow Chemical Hopes so
The proposed renovation and expansion of Dow’s sulfuryl flouride plant could also mean the end of a long downward trend in employment at the plant. Dow spokesman Scott Anderson said California Dow officials are seeking Pittsburg Planning Commission approval of the 4,000-square-foot combination renovation and expansion project in hopes of proving to Dow directors that […]
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Facing up to Fluoride
Since the 1940s, municipal water supplies across the United States have been routinely dosed with fluoride. Even if you don’t live in the half of America that adds fluoride to the water supply to help prevent tooth decay, low doses of fluoride occur naturally in virtually all water. It’s routinely added to toothpaste as well, […]
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Communities stitch a patchwork-quilt of dental services
As dentists across Alabama abandoned low-income patients in the last two decades, a few communities took dental matters into their own hands through determination and local, federal and private funding. The dental clinics that their efforts produced are few and far between; only about 20 can be found around the state. But patients and health […]
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Fluoride is lacking where it’s most needed
By one measure, Alabama is doing pretty well on the dental front: More than 80 percent of Alabamians drink water with plenty of fluoride in it. That’s well above the national average, and better than most Southern states. But that percentage is misleading. It’s high because the most heavily populated areas have water with added […]
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Forgotten teeth: The elderly and the disabled
Searcy Hospital, the state-run mental facility in north Mobile County, has a dentist and two hygienists on staff. They provide regular checkups, cleanings, extractions and other work, said Melanie Beasley, spokeswoman for the state Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation. At centers for developmentally disabled and retarded adults around the state, including the Albert […]
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The platinum age of dentistry
The economy remains reasonably good, more people than ever have dental insurance and cosmetic dentistry has caught on with the middle class. Most Alabama dentists are as busy as they want to be. “You can call this the platinum age of dentistry,” said Dr. Mary Lynne Capilouto, dean of the dental school at the University […]
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The Dental Divide
One day this past March, Paul and Leeann Houston put their year-old daughter Haley into the car for a trip to the dentist. A rotten tooth was making her miserable and stunting her appetite. Unfortunately, the trip took five hours. That’s because they were driving from Mobile to a dental clinic at the University of […]
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Many Alabama dentists simply refuse to accept Medicaid patients
In his own polite way, Dr. Michael Dasinger is quick to cuss Medicaid. He’s the only dentist in the South Alabama town of Brewton who treats children covered by Medicaid, a government health insurance program for the poor. But more than once he has almost quit out of frustration with low reimbursement rates, claims processing […]
United States, Alabama