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Bangor to Continue Fluoridation
BANGOR – Despite some emotional pleas to stop the nearly 40-year- old practice, city councilors agreed Monday night that the Bangor Water District should continue adding fluoride to the water supply. In doing so, councilors noted that the benefits to residents far outweighed potential risks, a conclusion they reached after hearing from a parade of […]
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Fluoride backers defend its use
AUGUSTA – Public health advocates turned out en masse in Augusta on Monday to defend the practice of adding fluoride to public drinking water supplies. The press conference came in response to a flurry of recent challenges to fluoridation in Maine. Speakers at the event took aim at a Bangor pediatrician who has asked the […]
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State dental, health groups reject fluoride claims as false
AUGUSTA, Maine –Maine dental and public health organizations Monday condemned anti-fluoride claims made by a Bangor pediatrician, saying they don’t want more Maine towns to change their water-treatment policies on the basis of “misinformation.” Maine Center for Disease Control Director Dora Anne Mills led representatives of state dental, medical, public health and pediatric associations who […]
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Fluoride can harm teeth, bones
The residents of Mount Desert and Lincoln were wise to vote against water fluoridation. They just did a favor for their children and fellow residents. Fluoride in our water system does not make sense considering the latest human and animal studies. If all clinicians and policymakers read the latest report by the National Research Council, […]
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Town votes to remove fluoride from drinking water
MOUNT DESERT, Maine –The Maine Dental Association expressed disappointment after residents voted to remove fluoride from the local drinking water, making Mount Desert the state’s first community to make such a change. The decision came after the Mount Desert Water District said studies conducted during the past few years call into question the safety of […]
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Town is first in Maine to reject fluoride
MOUNT DESERT, ME — In a 229 to 42 vote, residents chose to remove fluoride from their drinking water, making this town the first municipality in the state to do so, a March 7 Bar Harbor Times story reported. The town has been adding fluoride since 1963, but the water district, citing recent studies showing […]
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Town says no to fluoride
Mount Desert residents voted to remove fluoride from the drinking water by an overwhelming 229-42 margin at Monday’s town meeting referendum vote. The town becomes the first municipality in the state to remove fluoride from its water. Since 1963, Mount Desert has added fluoride for its purported benefits in combating tooth decay. But recent studies […]
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Need for fluoride questioned
Since 1963, the Town of Mount Desert has been adding toxins to its drinking water by public mandate, according to water district manager Paul Slack. It was 44 years ago when the town voted to added fluoride to the water, which supplies about 1,000 connections in Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor. The intended purpose was […]
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Mount Desert: Voters to decide fluoride issue
MOUNT DESERT – Voters here may get the chance in a few months to decide whether the local water district should continue to add fluoride to the water that is piped to many of the homes and businesses in town. If they do, Mount Desert will be the latest of several Maine communities which have […]
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Reconsider fluoride additive
Recently, my husband’s cardiologist was not joking when he told him, “They should put Lipitor in the water supply.” His explanation of the benefits he saw with his patients in lowering their cholesterol had convinced him that this was the way to go. But in another doctor’s office, a patient was complaining about the side […]
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