fluoridation

Study: Fluoridation Benefits Doubtful

NEW YORK, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Achieving cavity-free status has little to do with fluoride intake, reports a study in the Fall 2008 Journal of Public Health Dentistry . The ongoing Iowa Fluoride Study (IFS), begun in 1992, follows a cohort of children from birth. Researc...

Professionals Ask Governor Jindal to Veto Unfair Fluoridation Bill

NEW YORK, June 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Many professionals world-wide are calling on Louisiana Governor Jindal to veto a bill which would force fluoridation on almost the whole state. SB 312 was quietly pushed through the legislature by PR firms without most Louisianans knowing it was hap...

Kidney Foundation Drops Fluoridation Support

Fluoride may damage bones of kidney patients NEW YORK, June 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Kidney Foundation withdrew its support of water fluoridation citing the 2006 National Research Council (NRC) report indicating that kidney patients are more susceptible to fluoride's bone an...

Louisiana May Mandate Fluoridation Despite Evidence of Harm

NEW YORK, June 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ignoring scientific evidence of harm, the Louisiana State Senate passed a fluoridation mandate bill which, if approved by the House, will require fluoride chemicals be added to most of Louisiana's public water supplies, ostensibly to reduce tooth dec...

Cancer-Causing Toxins Detected in Fluoride Chemicals, Says NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation

NEW YORK, April 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Traces of arsenic, copper, lead and other impurities were found in samples of chemicals used to fluoridate public water supplies between the years 2000 and 2006, reports the Centers for Disease Control.(1) Controversial fluoridation schemes...

APHA Misleads Americans About Fluoridation

NEW YORK, March 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Public Health Association's (APHA) new Fluoridation Position Statement is based on many documents that neither support nor evaluate fluoridation's safety and/or effectiveness as it claims, (1) reports NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, ...

Physicians' Group Rejects Fluoridation

NEW YORK, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "Fluoridation of drinking water is scientifically untenable, and should not be part of a public health initiative or program," says the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) in a new published statement. CAPE is Canada's lea...

Water fluoridation and tooth decay

Australian researchers have found that 70 percent of the children who live in non-fluoridated areas have more dental problems than those who drank adequately fluoridated water. These findings were arrived at after a study involving // more than 250,000 children. Jason Armfield, a researcher a...

Statement by American Dental Association President John S. Findley on Passage of H.Res. 204, a Congressional Resolution Congratulating the Association for its 150 Years of Service

...ilant on behalf of its members, the ADA nonetheless devotes considerable time and resources advocating for public health measures like community water fluoridation and initiatives to improve access to oral health care services for all Americans. And of course, everyone recognizes the ADA's role in emphasizing the...

Acid Drinks Blamed for Increase in Tooth Erosion

... on what they find to address your specific problems." More information The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more on water fluoridation . SOURCES: Melvin Pierson, D.D.S., Sicklerville, N.J.; Dr. Edmund Hewlett, associate professor, restorative dentistry, Sch...

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Another Study Links Fluoride to Bone Cancer

...vard study by Bassin showing a link between water fluoridation and osteosarcoma in young boys.(2) A 1992 New...s 1955. Newburgh is home of the first human health fluoridation experiment begun in 1945. According to Christ..."If governments truly want to save money, stopping fluoridation is a no-brainer. It would save money, preserve he...

'Second Thoughts about Fluoride,' Reports Scientific American

...ridated areas of the state," writes Fagin. Levy will study fluoride's effects on their bones. Over 1200 professionals urge Congress to cease water fluoridation and conduct Congressional hearings because scientific evidence indicates fluoridation is ineffective and has serious health risks. Support them; write...

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Dental caries

... dental caries : Fight. the disease, not the lesion. ... 4 JAMA -- Association of Dental Caries and Blood Lead Levels, June 23, 1999, ... 5 fluoridation of Drinking Water to Prevent Dental Caries ... Dental caries is a transmissible, infectious, chronic, preventable disease. ... below is to...

Carcinogen

...Carcinogen was warned by the Arbiter that the Mallus Mundi could give the person ... ... "probable" carcinogen , than the entire policy of water fluoridation – at least in ... "All carcinogens have a Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG) of zero. ... carcinogen - definition of carcinogen from Busi...