Tauranga residents will not have access to a public supply of non-fluoridated water for at least another few months, but a fluoride-free advocate says the move would now be a waste of time. The city's ...

Several U.S. communities are debating whether to remove fluoride from their water supplies in the wake of comments by President-elect Trump’s Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ...

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Fluoride is much smaller than hydroxide, so these particles fit better in the gaps between the phosphate ions. This creates a stronger and more compact crystal structure, called fluorapatite.

Communities across the U.S. have been adding fluoride to their water systems since the 1960s, and in Michigan even longer, but that could change under Donald Trump's second term. President-elect ...

Oliver A.H. Jones receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC), various water utilities and the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) Victoria for research into environmental pollution.

Dentists can also prescribe toothpaste with a higher amount of fluoride or apply a fluoride varnish or gel. People with gum disease or a dry mouth caused by health conditions or medications might ...

The issue has to do with fluoride, a chemical naturally abundant in drinking water in Colorado Springs a century ago. The realization that fluoride could make teeth resistant to decay led to ...

Thank you to the Star-Telegram Editorial Board for a nuanced and thought-provoking piece on fluoride in the water supply. (Dec. 1, 4C, “Trump, Kennedy Jr. need to keep their hands off fluoride ...

That includes one aspect he’s been very vocal about lately: fluoride in public drinking water. Kennedy wrote on X in early November that the Trump administration will recommend that U.S. water ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s assertion that the Trump administration will recommend the removal of fluoride from U.S. drinking water for health reasons is highlighting a controversy that has caused ...

Kennedy, who endorsed Trump after ending his independent bid for president, has called fluoride a “dangerous neurotoxin" and plans to remove it from the nation's public water systems.