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• Fluoridation Does Not Decrease Childhood Cavities

  “It may…be that fluoridation of drinking water does not have a strong protective effect against early childhood caries (ECC),” reports dentist Howard Pollick, University of California, and colleagues, in the Winter 2003 Journal of Public Health Dentistry(1). The dental profession promises steep cavity declines in populations who drink water with fluoride added, especially in poor […]

• Arsenic in my Fluoride? CDC admits Yes

  New York – March 12, 2007 — Trace amounts of arsenic are found in fluoride chemicals added to drinking water supplies, reports the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) website. Fluoridation is a controversial attempt to reduce tooth decay in tap-water consumers. Fluoridation chemicals – sodium fluoride, sodium fluorosilicate, and fluorosilicic acid (FSA) – are […]

• Study Links Fluoride to Premature Births

  State University of New York (SUNY) researchers found more premature births in fluoridated than non-fluoridated upstate New York communities, according to a presentation made at the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting on November 9, 2009 in Philadelphia. (1) Fluoridation is the addition of fluoride chemicals into public water supplies ostensibly to prevent tooth decay. […]

• Dental fluorosis out of control – Media is missing the elephant in the room

  NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — When fluoridation began in 1945, promoters believed that the trade-off for reducing tooth decay would be 10% dental fluorosis, but by 1986-7 the prevalence had jumped to 23% and then by 2004 to 41% (Beltrán-Aguila et al, 2010) now it stands at a whopping 65% (Neurath, 2019, in press), […]

• Fluoride No Benefit to Poor, studies show

  Even when fluoridated water is the most consumed item, cavities are extensive in low-income Americans when their diets are bad, according to Caries Research. (1) Burt and colleagues studied low-income African-American adults, 14-years-old and over, living in Detroit, Michigan, where water suppliers add fluoride chemicals attempting to prevent cavities. Yet, 83% of this population has […]

• Southampton: improve teeth by topping up levels of fluoride in water

  Southampton City Primary Care Trust (PCT) have just received news that one of the biggest port cities in the United States, San Diego, has decided to tackle tooth decay by topping up the natural fluoride content in the water supplied to most of its 1.2 million citizens. Both Southampton and San Diego have been largely […]

• Fluoride vote in Corning

  CORNING, N.Y. — Corning city leaders are set to take another vote on fluoride. In May, council members voted to add fluoride to city water. But in November, bound by a petition, they voted again to put fluoride to a referendum. That second resolution also instructed the city manager to pursue fluoridation but not spend […]

• Fluoride Causes Cavities?

  New York – July 2, 2001 – Opposite to what’s expected, children who drink high fluoride water in areas of the African country, Uganda, have more tooth decay than their equals in low fluoride districts, and, expectedly, more severe dental fluorosis (yellow or brown teeth), according to Clinical Oral Investigations (a,b). “No teeth were lost […]

• Unions Say E.P.A. Bends to Political Pressure

  WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 – Unions representing thousands of staff scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency say the agency is bending to political pressure and ignoring sound science in allowing a group of toxic chemicals to be used in agricultural pesticides. Leaders of several federal employee unions say the chemicals pose serious risks for fetuses, pregnant […]

• Fluoride expert speaks at Binghamton University

  VESTAL, N.Y. — A man leading the charge to remove fluoride from the water supply was in the Southern Tier Tuesday, speaking at Binghamton University. Dr. Paul Connet* is the executive director of the Fluoride Action Network. He says that fluoride has its benefits, like when it’s used to strengthen teeth, but he thinks that […]