Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A flurry of cases were heard in numerous state courts across the U.S. in the 1950s during the early years of water fluoridation. State courts consistently held in favor of allowing fluoridation to continue, analogizing fluoridation to mandatory vaccination and the use of other chemicals to clean the public water supply, both of which had a long ...
The World Health Organization states water fluoridation, when feasible and culturally acceptable, has substantial advantages, especially for subgroups at high risk, [28] while the European Commission finds no advantage to water fluoridation compared with topical use. [29] FDI World Dental Federation supports water fluoridation as safe and ...
Water fluoridation is the controlled addition of fluoride to a public water supply to reduce tooth decay, [2] and is handled differently by countries across the world. . Fluoridated water contains fluoride at a level that is proven effective for preventing cavities; this can occur naturally or by adding fl
Since 2010, more than 150 towns or counties throughout the country have voted to keep fluoride out of public water systems or to stop adding it, according to the Fluoride Action Network, an anti ...
The city now plans to re-fluoridate its water supply, but cost issues and global supply chain problems post-pandemic have created delays. The military supports fluoridation.
Supporters of the bill say fluoridating water does not help protect teeth and could lead to lower IQs in kids. Dentists pushed back on those claims Kentucky lawmakers ignore dentists, could let ...
Fluoride pollution from various industrial emissions can also contaminate water supplies. In a few areas of the United States, fluoride concentrations in water are much higher than normal, mostly from natural sources. In 1986, EPA established a maximum allowable concentration for fluoride in drinking water of 4 milligrams per liter (mg/L).
Kentucky is the only state to require fluoridation in every community water system that serves 1,500 or more people, and as a result, 99.99 percent of residents receive fluoridated water.