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  • New data rekindle debate over fluoridation: Largest US study raises new questions about effectiveness

    The debate over fluoridating public water supplies, a measure long credited with producing a dramatic drop in tooth decay in the United States, is being rekindled by new studies suggesting the decline may have more to do with other causes, including other sources of fluoride. The most exhaustive study ever conducted on the dental health […]

  • Fluoride leak shuts the taps

    Dec 11, 2005 — Officials are investigating a leak at a Pennsylvania-American Water Co. treatment plant that sent an estimated 600 gallons of fluoride into the system on Saturday, prompting a public warning for customers not to drink the water. The leak raised the fluoride levels in the area from one part per million to […]

  • Oral Health: How a foundation in New York State is working to prevent cavities in young Children

    Early Childhood Caries—tooth decay among children under age six—is a disease process that can cause pain that affects a child’s ability to eat, speak, and learn at a time when he or she should be developing and thriving. Almost half of all children develop this decay before they reach kindergarten, with the greatest burden occurring […]

  • DePasquale, dentists push for fluoridated water in York County

    The tooth fairy would have a lot less business were it up to local health-care professionals who want to slow decay in the mouths of York County’s youngest and poorest residents. While the cash-for-tooth exchange is fine for natural tooth loss, John M. Bush, DDS, says all too often low-income children lose teeth due to […]

  • Study Links Fluoride to Pre-term Birth and Anemia in Pregnancy

    NEW YORK, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Fluoride avoidance reduced anemia in pregnant women, decreased pre-term births and enhanced babies’ birth-weight, concludes leading fluoride expert, AK Susheela and colleagues, in a study published in Current Science (May 2010). http://www.fluorideandfluorosis.com/Anemia/Current%20Science%20Reprint.pdf Susheela’s team explains that anemia in pregnancy, which can lead to maternal and infant mortality, continues to […]

  • New fluoride-containing bottled water helps maintain healthy teeth

    Community water supplies that have been fluoridated for over 65 years are meant to help reduce tooth decay among U.S. citizens. Now, individuals can purchase bottled water that also contains optimal amounts of fluoride. A new fluoridated bottled water product, called AquaForte, was created by a New York prosthodontist and is endorsed by the American […]

  • Fluoride Lowers IQ in Kids, New Study Shows

    A review of some two dozen studies by Harvard University researchers published this month in a peer-reviewed federal journal suggests that fluoride added into water supplies “significantly” decreases the IQ of children, leading to renewed calls by activists to end the controversial practice of fluoridation. Most public water supplies in the United States still have […]

  • U.S. and Europe to Give Iranians New Atom Offer

    WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 – The Bush administration and three European allies have approved a new offer to be made to Iran in a last-ditch effort to head off a confrontation over its suspected nuclear weapons program. The proposal would permit Iran to conduct very limited nuclear activities on its own soil, but would move the […]

  • Yorkshire: Feeling sore over fluoride

    CAMPAIGNERS have criticised moves that could pave the way for fluoride to be added to drinking water supplies across South Yorkshire. Regional chiefs at the Yorkshire and Humber Strategic Health Authority have begun a consultation exercise to discuss the pros and cons of adding the chemical added to water supplies in the region. The measure […]

  • Study shows fluoride from tea & toothpaste weakens bones

    Fluoride consumption from tea and toothpaste damaged a woman’s bones, report researchers in Osteoporosis International published online October 9, 2010 (1). Fluoride, added to water intending to reduce tooth decay, accumulates in and can weaken bones. To prevent bone damage or skeletal fluorosis, in 1986 EPA set 4mg/L as water fluoride’s maximum-contaminant-level. In 2006, the […]