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• Vietnam to launch salt fluoride project in Lao Cai

  HANOI — A pilot phase of a salt fluoridation project will be implemented in Lao Cai province by the end of the year in an effort to improve oral health in Viet Nam, said Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Xuyen. Xuyen was speaking at a three-day National Dental Congress and International Exhibition 2008 in […]

• Aluminium found effective for treating natural waters

  The use of aluminium oxide is an effective and safe method for the removal of fluoride from natural mineral waters, an EU scientific body has concluded. The evaluation of various methods to remove fluoride from such products paves the way for regulator approval of the process. This would provide companies with an EU-wide approved process […]

• Basel, Switzerland, Halts decades of Water Fluoridation

  New York — April 30, 2003 –Over forty years of water fluoridation failed to reduce tooth decay in Basel, Switzerland, where children’s cavity rates increased from 1996 – 2001, according to a Swiss Government Report(1). Basel, the only Swiss city adding fluoride to water supplies, halted fluoridation(1a) on April 9, 2003, on the advice of […]

• EU Proposes Curbs on Substance Levels in Mineral Water

  BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- Natural mineral water could be damaging to health, and water companies may need to invest to remove harmful substances from their products, the European Union Commission said Thursday. The Commission proposed maximum levels on 15 substances – including fluoride, nickel and lead – that occur in mineral water. It said most of […]

• New Studies Find Fluoridation Ineffective

  A number of new studies have cast yet further doubt on the benefits of water fluoridation. 1) A study from the journal Caries Research (Seppa et al, 2002) reports no differences in dental decay when comparing the dental records of a fluoridated and unfluoridated town in Finland. As the study notes “even a longitudinal approach […]

• Time, and the great healer

  In the summer of 1948, a little boy lay very still in his cot on the paediatric ward at Clatterbridge general hospital in Cheshire. His name was Peter. Not yet two, he had contracted tuberculous meningitis, a particularly vicious form of the disease. Penicillin, the world’s first antibiotic, was then just starting to save lives, […]

• Belgium, France, Ireland Cut Fluoride Use – Health Concerns Cited – British Scientists Request Health Studies

  Because of health concerns, Belgium banned the sale of fluoride supplements to prevent tooth decay, France removed sodium fluoride from the market for the treatment of osteoporosis and Ireland plans to lower water fluoride levels. And, because poor quality research has been carried out on fluoride and health, British scientists called, on Thursday (September 5, […]

• Academy agrees updated fluoride guidelines

  The European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry’s Board and Council have unanimously approved proposed guidelines on the use of fluoride in toothpaste for children. This approval followed a six-month discussion period in an effort to achieve the highest level of consensus. The consensus reached was that fluoride levels in toothpastes targeted at children aged six months […]

• War continues over fluoridation…

  The issue of fluoridation, adding fluoride to our public drinking water supplies, is a highly emotive one in Ireland. While some argue that it has led to better dental health, others view it as ‘mass medication’ with a substance that could actually be detrimental to health. In an effort to answer some of the many […]

• Fluoride: Now it can be added to our food

  Fluoride can now be added to foods manufactured and supplied in Europe. It’s been classified as a safe supplement, according to Europe’s highest authority on food standards. The decision means that food manufacturers can include sodium monofluorophosphate, the common form of fluoride found in toothpaste and mouth washes, to their products. The decision, by the […]