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• Some babies get too much fluoride

  Out of the mouths of babes comes … fluorosis? Pediatric dentist Dr. Gary Cook sees it in his office: the faint, tell-tale white lines on teeth that indicate a child has gotten too much fluoride. “You see it and wonder where it comes from,” said Cook, who has been in practice since 1981 and sits […]

• Fluoride back on Tooele ballot

  TOOELE — When residents here vote next week, they will be asked whether they want fluoride added to their drinking water, six years after voters defeated that same idea by a nearly two-to-one margin. Tooele dentist Dr. Clair Vernon and Tooele County Health Department director Myron Bateman asked the City Council last month to consider […]

• Hail to fluoride: new sculpture will commemorate the fact that Grand Rapids was the first city in the world to fluoridate its water supply.

  GRAND RAPIDS — Downtown’s newest sculpture is up, but it will be several months before it will become public. Workers on Sunday erected a 33-foot-high sculpture commemorating Grand Rapids’s historic decision to fluoridate its water supply. It’s in a small plaza near the Grand River, next to the new J.W. Marriott Hotel. The West Michigan […]

• Fluoride overwhelmingly rejected in Tooele

  Tooele voters have turned down a fluoridation proposal for a third time. Despite new residents that proponents thought might be more inclined to vote for fluoridation, it was defeated by a larger margin than in the 1999 election. Jim Busico of Tooele, a local realtor and fluoride critic, said the anti-fluoride activists were successful in […]

• Methuen voters keep town fluoride-free again

  METHUEN — When the question is fluoridating public water, no still means no in Methuen. Voters decided to keep their water fluoride-free in 1981, 1997, and emphatically again yesterday. The referendum on adding fluoride to the water was rejected 56.6 to 43.4 percent, with 7,742 votes against it and 5,939 votes in favor. “We worked […]

• County says water company not adding fluoride

  Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon has not decided whether the county will sue a small water company for failing to add fluoride as required by public health rules. He wants to consult others before he acts on the request from the Salt Lake Valley Board of Health. “It’s an issue of fairness,” Corroon told […]

• Layton Officials Furious Over Fluoride Costs

  LAYTON — Fluoridating Davis County’s water will cost at least twice as much as voters were told when they approved fluoridation in 2000. And that prospect has elected leaders of one city — Layton — livid. In a scathing letter to the Davis County Commission and Health Department last week, Mayor Jerry Stevenson accused former […]

• Water companies sue to stop fluoride

  Two small water companies are suing to keep fluoride out of their supplies and are raising legal questions about whether it should flow to any of Salt Lake County. Holliday Water Co. and White City Water Improvement District have filed suit in 3rd District Court against Salt Lake County, the Salt Lake Valley Health Department […]

• S.L. County ruling could delay fluoride

  About 24,000 Salt Lake Valley residents will not get fluoride in their water for at least a year. Or will they? The Salt Lake County Council ruled Tuesday that the Holliday Water Co. and the White City Improvement District could delay adding fluoride until Dec. 31, 2004. But the Salt Lake Valley Health Department says […]

• No Fluoride in Holladay’s Water?

  Fluoridated water may not flow to thousands of taps on Salt Lake County’s east side this fall — unlike the rest of the valley. Holladay Water Co. does not plan to include the additive to its supplies despite a countywide vote in 2000 approving fluoridation of all public drinking water. The company serves about 15,000 […]