Joseph Ladapo. Like most American cities, the Lake County town had added fluoride to its water for decades. The vote came after dentists during public comment defended fluoridation, claiming the ...

Few of us have spent a lot of time thinking about fluoride—until recently. Now it has become a lightning rod of controversy. Public-health officials are sparring over conflicting studies ...

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., ...

TUCKED AWAY IN a corner of virtually every gym sits at least one foam roller—a cylindrical, piece of padded PVC that has become a mainstream tool for massaging muscle tissue. There’s nothing ...

A new paper examined the findings from dozens of studies on fluoride exposure and children’s IQ scores. By Melinda Wenner Moyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s skepticism about fluoride has become a ...

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SAN DIEGO — The federal government is scaling back its dependence on fluoride in drinking water after new studies found a link between high fluoride exposure to behavioral issues and lower ...

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.

Agrawal N & Pushpanjali K. 2011 [40] India Community 9–16 Follow-up: 6/12 mo. Acidulated phosphate fluoride (APF) gel 2. Meyer-Lueckel H et al. 2010 [56] Germany Community 6–9 Retrospective ...

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 ...