For decades, fluoride has been at the center of public health debates, hailed by experts as a crucial tool in preventing tooth decay while also facing scrutiny from skeptics who question its safety.

Fluoridation of public water supplies to prevent tooth decay has always been contentious, even attracting some very weird scare stories. Tooth decay comes second only to the common cold as a ...

Fluoride in water is a safe and inexpensive way to reduce cavities by 25%-50%. Removing fluoride would disproportionately impact children and low-income individuals ...

Kennedy Jr. Medical consensus says fluoride is harmless at levels found in drinking water and helps prevent tooth decay. Opposition to fluoride hinges on claims of toxicity, or that adding it to ...

Fluoride didn’t make much of a splash in the public eye when fluoridation trials began in 1945. The first run only reached about 232,000 Americans at the time. Nearly a decade later, the number ...

Longwood commissioners unanimously agreed Monday to end a decades-long practice of adding fluoride to the city’s drinking water supply — becoming the latest in Central Florida to do so.

Two Louisiana lawmakers want to ban fluoridation of all public water systems across the state, arguing that individuals should be able to choose whether or not to ingest more fluoride than what ...

ECUA Executive Director Bruce Woody told the News Journal are monitoring the re-emergence of the debate over adding fluoride to water. “Our response at this point is one of wanting to obtain ...