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• Poughkeepsie water board chairman doesn’t want fluoridation of water to resume

  Poughkeepsie – The chairman of the Poughkeepsie Joint Water Board wants answers as to why health officials want to resume the introduction of a fluoride-type chemical in the water supply. Some two years ago, the chemical was halted because of a mechanical problem. Now, water board Chairman Frank Mora said it should be left out. […]

• Overdosing on Fluoride

  Fluoride may be essential for healthy teeth, but can children get too much of it? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. Excessive fluoride can stain kids’ teeth — causing a condition called enamel fluorosis. The condition shows up during tooth development in early childhood and creates defects in tooth enamel that can cause discoloration of the […]

• Fluoride backers tout thrift, kids

  Proponents of fluoridating water are appealing to voters’ sympathy for underprivileged children as well as their pocketbooks, although some Davis County officials are questioning whether the cost of fluoridation would be as low as proponents have estimated. At a news conference with Salt Lake Valley board of health members, dentists and doctors Wednesday in Salt […]

• FIRST MENTION – Fluoride, 1931

  A dentist named Frederick S. McKay opened his practice in 1901 in Colorado Springs and soon noticed something odd about his patients: many of them had brown, mottled teeth, very ugly but also highly resistant to decay. McKay collected water samples from several areas where brown teeth were common and sent them to a chemist […]

• Groups Nationwide Oppose Congressional Bills that Provide Harmful Fluoridation for Children

  NEW YORK, Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ — Legislation moving through the U.S. Congress, although meant to help children in the “Children’s Dental Health  Improvement Act,” includes harmful provisions and allocations for fluoridation (Senate Bill S.1626; House of Representative Bills H.R. 4476, H.R. 3659,H.R. 5098, among others). Our organization joins civic and environmental organizations across the country, […]

• Poughkeepsie water board votes to place fluoride back in the system

  Poughkeepsie – By a four to two vote, the Poughkeepsie Joint Water Board Tuesday voted to reintroduce a fluoride chemical back into the city and town’s water supply. Use of the chemical was stopped some time ago because of a mechanical issue. Water Board Chairman Frank Mora has been arguing to keep the chemical out […]

• Scientists speak out on fluoride

  LAYTON — Scientists opposed to putting fluoride in public water supplies spoke to a packed house Friday night at the new Davis County Conference Center. Proponents of fluoridating the county’s water, Utahns for Better Dental Health and the Davis County Health Department, declined to appear. The public forum was sponsored by Waterwatch of Utah, a […]

• Fluoride, A Missing Ingredient

  Barker Hamill’s children take fluoride pills every other day. The reason: Morrisville, Pa., where they live, does not have fluoridated water. ”Our pediatrician recommended taking them,” Mr. Hamill. ”There’s no lack of evidence that it helps to prevent tooth decay.” Mr. Hamill is not just any proponent of fluoridation. He is also chief of the […]

• Is Expired Toothpaste Dangerous?

  Q. What happens if you use toothpaste that’s past its expiration date? Is it dangerous? A. No, it’s not dangerous, said Dr. Joel H. Berg, chairman of pediatric dentistry at the University of Washington in Seattle and a representative of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. “But,” he said, “there is a potential loss of […]

• Children Need Dentists – NOT Fluoridation, Study Shows

  Despite living without fluoridated water, rural children’s cavity rates equal those of urban children, who are more likely to drink fluoridated water, according to a large national government study of over 24,000 U.S. children, ages 2- to 17-year-old.(1) Poor children, whether from rural or urban areas, are more likely to have cavities and least likely […]