Commissioners at tonight’s Public Works meeting in Burlington, Vermont, voted unanimously to accept the recommendations of commissioners Margret Gundersen, Jared Wood, and Assistant Director of Water/Waste Water Treatment Laurie Adams. In January of 2010 the three were asked to review the most current information concerning fluoride. Citing the 2006 National Research Council’s review of fluoride […]
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William Maas, former head of CDC’s Division of Oral Health, now advisor at Pew’s dental health initiative
EMAIL: Subj: [DPH] Good News from the Pew Children’s Dental Health Initiative Date: 2/6/2009 1:00:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time From: SGehshan@pewtrusts.org To: dental-public-health@list.pitt.edu Dear Colleague, The Pew Center on the States is pleased to announce that Dr. William Maas, retired assistant surgeon general and former director of the Division of Oral Health in the Centers […]
Juneau: Sides wait for voters’ decision on fluoridation
Voters will be asked Oct. 2 whether they want fluoride returned to community water supplies in a ballot measure that appears to be the most debated issue in this year’s city election. Proponents of Proposition 2, which calls for adding fluoride to city water, say that safe levels of fluoride in water can help prevent […]
Water fluoridation deadline nears for Malibu
Some residents are in an uproar over the Metropolitan Water District’s decision to begin the process of adding fluoride to Malibu’s and Topanga’s water supply beginning Oct. 7, and some Malibu residents, questioned in a random sampling, had no idea that their water is about to be fluoridated. State law signed in 1995 by former […]
Fluoride bill re-emerges in Salem
SALEM — A controversial bill that would pre-empt Ashland’s ban on fluoridating its water supply has reemerged after stalling earlier this legislative session. State Sen. Alan Bates told his colleagues on a Joint Ways and Means subcommittee that he was troubled by Democratic Sen. Betsy Johnson’s temporary, planned absence from the panel just so the […]
Fluoride Risks Are Still A Challenge
The controversy about the risks of fluoride is unlikely to be resolved soon, a meeting held in late July strongly suggests. Ever since fluoride was first added to water supplies in Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1945 to prevent tooth decay, the practice has been controversial. Some claim it does little or nothing to prevent tooth […]
Dentist: Reasons I No Longer Promote Fluoridation
By Bill Osmunson DDS MPH, February 26, 2025 Freedom, Science, and Jurisdictional Authorities I am a comprehensive cosmetic dentist with a master’s degree in public health. I retired after 46 years of clinical practice and teaching. For the first 25 years, I promoted fluoridation. Then, I read both sides of the science, laws, and ethics […]
The Fluoride IQ Studies
The 78 human studies listed below reported an association of exposure to elevated levels of fluoride and lowered IQ. These studies are based on IQ/cognitive examinations of 29,130 children (75 studies) and 689 adults (3 studies). Location of the Studies: China (47), India (14), Iran (4), Mexico (4), Canada (4), Egypt (1), Kenya (1), Pakistan […]
Major study finds fluoride in drinking water lowers children’s IQ… as map reveals US neighborhoods at risk
Drinking water treated with fluoride can lower children’s IQ, according to a major review that builds on a growing body of research. The new research looked at 74 other studies exploring how the mineral affects children’s brain development. It found a strong association between higher levels of fluoride in tap water and lower IQ scores […]
The Fluoride Controversy
The nomination of Robert Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services is a travesty. His ideas about vaccination, raw milk, hyperbaric oxygen, HIV, Wi-Fi and COVID fly in the face of evidence-based science. But once in a while, even a blind squirrel finds an acorn, so not all of Kennedy’s ideas are outrageous. […]