Tag: Toothpaste

During the run-up to a referendum on fluoridation in Wichita, Kansas, the city’s local paper (the Wichita Eagle) became an ardent advocate of fluoridated water. In it’s zeal for fluoridation, the Eagle turned its backs on one of the basic tenets of good journalism by allowing the paper’s editorial view to spill into the paper’s […]

For many children, fluoride toothpaste is the largest source of fluoride intake. One strip of fluoridated toothpaste on a child-sized toothbrush contains between 0.75 and 1.5 mg of fluoride, which is more fluoride than is found in many prescription fluoride supplements (0.25 to 1.0 mg per tablet). Since young children are known to swallow a large […]

In a development certain to gain the attention of risk managers at water utilities around the world, key toothpaste manufacturers and other organizations are changing how they portray the safety or risks of fluorides and water fluoridation.