After years without fluoride, parts of Windsor-Essex will have the mineral added back into drinking water systems Wednesday. This week, residents in Windsor, Tecumseh and LaSalle will have fluoride flowing into their water systems for the first time since 2013. During a…
Calgarian have voted to add fluoride back to the city’s water supply. “I’m thrilled,” said Juliet Guichon, a University of Calgary medical bioethicist and the campaign manager with Fluoride Yes! “And I’m sure I speak on behalf of the small…
Some University of Calgary students are urging other students to vote in favour of restoring fluoride in the city’s drinking water in this fall’s election. Fluoride naturally occurs in some foods and is found in the Bow and Elbow Rivers at a…
Calgary children have been without fluoride in their drinking water since 2011, and their dental health is suffering. The findings come from a University of Calgary study published in Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology that compares the dental health of children in…
After decades of failed votes, city council has finally given the green light to add fluoride to Regina’s water supply. Only Coun. Landon Mohl (Ward 10) voted against the motion after three hours of delegations and discussion both for and…
The prevalence of caries in the primary dentition of children was significantly higher in Calgary, Canada, without fluoridated water, than in Edmonton, where the water is still fluoridated, according to a study published by the journal Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. Calgary and…
Adding fluoride to water is once again fuelling debate locally, as Regina city council gets set in August to consider a community fluoridation program. Uswak, who is also the referral consultant dentist for the Saskatchewan Health Authority, says that for anti-fluoridationists,…
Editor’s note: The “Innovations” series highlights and features leaps forward in science-based technology that can provide benefits to dentists, their patients and the public. A new community water fluoridation system that is the first advancement in water fluoridation technology in…
Several international experts have taken the unusual step of urging a Canadian university to arrange an independent investigation into research that controversially linked fluoride in drinking water to lower intelligence in children. The academics and public health officials from six…
Kiwi kids are suffering unnecessarily from severe tooth decay that could be prevented, according to research published today in JAMA Pediatrics, the highest-ranking journal of pediatrics, perinatology and child health in the world. The nation-wide study, evaluating the link between community water fluoridation…
When Dr Rob Beaglehole moved from Wellington to Nelson, he was shocked at the number of children with tooth decay. The primary difference: Wellington had fluoridated water; Nelson did not. “It wasn’t uncommon to be removing 10 teeth from children as…
Seventy-five years ago, on Jan. 25, 1945, public health officials began an experiment in Grand Rapids, Mich., to prevent the pain, misery, and cost of tooth decay: adjusting the level of fluoride in drinking water. Cavity rates plunged with fluoridation. Today, 211…
A councilman who missed an earlier city council vote meeting cast the deciding, tie-breaking vote in a 4-3 decision that will continue community fluoridation for 181,000 Brevard County residents on the east coast of Florida. “It was a movement of…
Quebec’s Order of Dentists has issued a call for the Quebec government to take charge and make fluoridation of drinking water a reality across the province. Currently, the province’s cities and towns are in charge of water fluoridation, and for…
Alongside organizations and publications around the world, the ADA on Aug. 19 issued a press statement in response to widespread media interest in a study that suggested an association between higher prenatal fluoride exposure and lower IQ scores in children 3-4 years of age.…
Dozens of concerned Calgarians gathered on Saturday afternoon for a discussion about the pros and cons of adding fluoride back into the city’s water system. The city stopped the practice of adding fluoride to drinking water back in 2011 because…
2015 Marks 70 Years of Community Water Fluoridation in the United States WASHINGTON, D.C., The American Dental Association (ADA) applauds U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, M.D., and his endorsement today of community water fluoridation. “Fluoride’s effectiveness in preventing tooth decay…
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