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• ‘Extensive tooth decay’ reported in parts of Queensland that refuse to add fluoride to water

  Doctors say Queensland government must fund fluoride for the entire state Dentists and doctors in Queensland are reporting “extensive tooth decay” in parts of the state that refuse to add fluoride to the water supply, especially among children and the elderly. One in four Queensland children admitted to hospital requires treatment for a dental condition, […]

• New Qld mayors pressed on fluoridated water

  The Queensland AMA has reignited its battle for fluoridated water in the wake of local government elections. Queensland doctors have seized on recent local government elections in the state to urge all new mayors to make fluoridated drinking water available to their local communities. Dr Dilip Dhupelia Australian Medical Association (AMA) Queensland President Dr Dilip […]

• Mandating water fluoridation in Queensland

  The Australian Dental Association – Queensland Branch (ADAQ) is calling on the Queensland Government to mandate water fluoridation in Queensland. ADAQ President, Dr Adrian Frick, says water fluoridation is “the easiest, cheapest, most effective and safest way to provide the dental health benefits of fluoridated water to the greatest number of people.” When the Water […]

• Dentists drill councils over water fluoridation decay

  In the 1930s, American scientists and public health researchers made a simple, but profoundly important discovery. People living in towns with around one part per million of fluoride found naturally in their drinking water had much less tooth decay that people whose drinking water contained lower levels of fluoride. All water supplies contain fluoride, but […]

• Mount Crosby: FIRST FLUORIDE UNITS DELIVERED

  Healthier teeth for Queenslanders are a step closer, after the first two fluoride units in a State wide rollout arrived today. Deputy Premier Paul Lucas watched as the units were delivered to the Mt Crosby Water Treatment plant, on Brisbane’s western outskirts. (PressZoom) – Healthier teeth for Queenslanders are a step closer, after the first […]

• Feds bitten by dentists over local government fluoridation failures

  Australia’s official body for dentists has taken a bite out of Australia’s main political parties over what it claims is a “deafening silence” over local governments controversially removing fluoride from town water supplies against the interests of public health. The Australian Dental Association (ADA) is warning that taxpayers and the federally funded Child Dental Benefits […]

• Communities that Have Rejected Fluoridation Since 2010

  Most developed nations, including the vast majority of western Europe, do not fluoridate their drinking water. Cities that do not fluoridate their water include: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Basel, Berlin, Copenhagen, Florence, Frankfurt, Geneva, Glasgow, Helsinki, London, Montreal, Oslo, Paris, Rome, Stockholm, Tokyo, Vancouver, Venice, Vienna, and Zurich. Since health authorities in North America have refused to let go […]

• Rockhampton: Councillors remain uncertain about fluoride in our water

  COUNCILLORS remain divided today over the fluoridation of Rockhampton Region’s water supply. Nine Queensland councils feel the evidence is strong enough to remove the chemical from public water supplies, but Rockhampton councillors are yet to reach agreement. Earlier today, councillors voted 6-3 in favour of writing to Queensland Health and the Australian Dental Association to […]

• Bill introduced to improve Queensland’s oral health

  (Media-Newswire.com) – The fluoridation of water supplies would become one of the most important and effective public health measures ever introduced in Queensland, Premier Anna Bligh told Parliament today. The Premier’s comments preceded today’s introduction of the Government’s Water Fluoridation Bill 2008 by Health Minister Stephen Robertson. “When I became Premier last year I made […]

• Queensland: Statement by Minister for Health on fluoridation program

  Minister for HealthThe Honourable Stephen Robertson Sunday, October 05, 2008 MEDIA RELEASE 5 October 2008 Southeast Queensland fluoridation program on track Works to ensure Southeast Queensland’s major water treatment plants provide fluoridated water by December are well advanced, Health Minister Stephen Robertson said today. Mr Robertson visited Wacol in Brisbane’s west today to inspect fluoride […]