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• Opponent says nonfluoridated cities have safer drinking water

  A leading opponent of the fluoridation of public drinking water supplies said a group of “butchers, bakers and candlestick makers” is promoting fluoridation while the FDA, the only government agency permitted to approve medicines as safe for human consumption, has never approved fluoride as safe or effective for internal use. “This is a business that […]

• Dentists renew push for fluoride in Hernando Co. water

  Hernando County does not put fluoride into its public water supply. The county utilities director opposes the idea as too costly and ineffective, and county commissioners routinely have followed her advice. The last time commissioners gave fluoridation serious consideration was a dozen years ago, when they approved it. They quickly backed down, though, after public […]

• Fluoridation not a new issue in Billings

  Willard Fraser, mayor of Billings for much of the 1960s, was never known for keeping his opinions to himself. In April 1965, the Billings City Council had passed an ordinance authorizing fluoridation of the city water supply, and opponents gathered enough petition signatures to force a public vote on the issue. Unless the council called […]

• Billings Voters to Decide Fluoride Debate

  The contentious water fluoridation issue goes back before Billings voters Nov. 5 because fluoride opponents have gathered enough valid petitions to force a vote. Yellowstone County Election Administrator Duane Winslow said Friday that petitions signed by 6,827 registered Billings voters – 15 percent of the 45,373 people registered to vote in the 2001 city election […]

• Wisdom of water fluoridation debated

  It’s estimated that nearly every major city in the United States has fluoridated drinking water. And that has state Assemblywoman Chris Giunchigliani wondering why Las Vegas hasn’t joined the rank and file. Fluoridation is, after all, touted by the American Dental Association and 71 other national and international professional organizations as being the most effective […]

• Editorial: Fluoride? In the water?

  The state Legislature is debating a plan to mandate fluoridated water in Washoe County, which has brought out a paranoid libertarian streak in some people. On Monday a Senate committee heard testimony about adding fluoride to the water, with public health advocates and dentists noting that the naturally occurring element helps prevent tooth decay. They […]

• Push to fluoridate Holmen’s water could renew debate about practice

  When fluoridation was new in the 1950s, many opponents were sure it had something to do with communism. All these years later, terrorists have replaced communists as America’s chief menace, but the debate rages anew about adding fluoride to the drinking water to help prevent tooth decay. On the one hand, fluoridation has been hailed […]

• Fear of Fluoride

  Have you read the fine print on your toothpaste tube recently? Check it out. If your toothpaste contains fluoride — which nearly every brand in the United States does — there’s a consumer advisory message that might surprise and alarm you, especially if you’re the parent of young children. The advisory, which began appearing on […]

• Fluoride Concerns Surface Once Again

  Despite decades of adding fluoride to drinking water to protect teeth from decay, there are growing concerns about the efficacy and the safety of this practice. Spurred by new research on fluoride’s health effects and at the request of the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Academies’ National Research Council (NRC) has begun another review of […]

• Is Fluoride Really All That Safe?

  “The Fluoride Deception” reads like a whodunit. There are conspiracies, cover-ups, human casualties, and broken careers. The prime suspects in this toxic thriller are compounds of fluoride; the coconspirators represent industry, the military, and the public health community. At the book’s ending, the suspect chemicals are not proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, but we […]