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For all its renown as an engine of pharmaceutical and biotechnology progress, New Jersey has long lagged in what public health officials call one of the 10 biggest health advances of the last century: fluoridating its water. While 72 percent of Americans get their water from public systems that add …
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“We think the cost benefit is not there,” said Karen Alexander, the president of the association. Many opponents say their information has come online, from national groups like the Fluoride Action Network and Citizens for Safe Drinking Water, which argue that fluoridation would cost $5 billion …
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Earlier this year, officials in Pinellas County in Florida decided to remove the cavity-fighting chemical from its water supply. Was it a mistake? The government has been drugging us for years. Since the 1940s, municipalities across the United States have been voluntarily adding fluoride to their …
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1945: Grand Rapids, Michigan, becomes the first U.S. city to fluoridate its drinking-water supply. Fluoridation, implemented as a means of reducing tooth decay, involves adding one part per million of fluoride to the water supply. (The optimum level, according to the Centers for Disease Control, …
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Public health officials say the evidence is solid that fluoridated drinking water helps protect teeth. Jim Cole/AP hide caption toggle caption Jim Cole/AP The federal Centers for Disease Control calls fluoridated water one of the top 10 public health achievements of the 20th century. But many …
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For decades, the issue of fluoridated water remained on the fringes. The John Birch Society took up the cause, seeing fluoride as a communist plot to poison the nation. References to Nazis using fluoride to pacify prisoners in concentration camps — a claim that was never proved — circulate even …
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ATLANTA — Fluoride in drinking water – credited with dramatically cutting cavities and tooth decay – may now be too much of a good thing. Getting too much of it causes spots on some kids’ teeth. A reported increase in the spotting problem is one reason the federal government said Friday it plans …
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Jan. 7, 2010— — After decades of touting the importance of fluoride, federal officials now say that many Americans may be getting too much of a good thing.For years, parents have heeded their dentists’ warnings and had their children take fluoride supplements or use fluoride toothpaste, in …
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Who can forget the scene from Kubrick’s classic movie Dr. Strangelove of screws-loose General Jack D. Ripper pontificating to straight-laced British group captain Lionel Mandrake about the dangers of fluoride in water—even as machine-gun fire tears up his office?“Mandrake,” says Ripper, “Have you …
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1874: By the mid-19th century, experiments have established that fluoride occurs naturally in varying concentrations in teeth, bone, and drinking water. In 1874, Alvaro Francisco Carlos Reynoso of France files a U.S. patent for an “elixir” containing fluoride of potassium, sodium, or ammonium, as …
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