The Effingham County Health Department (ECHD) will have clinics with dental cleanings, fluoride and Silver Diamine Fluoride (SDF) treatments for qualifying adults on Mondays, March 3 and April 14.

As a part of Toronto Public Health’s efforts to rebuild public health functions, select dental clinics are open for eligible clients. Please call ahead to confirm. In addition to the clinics that are ...

The Manatee County Commission plans to discuss whether to remove fluoride from drinking water during its meeting on Tuesday. The state recently issued guidelines against adding fluoride to local water ...

and published in 2018 in BMC Oral Health found that children of low-income households had a significant increase in dental decay after the community stopped adding fluoride to its water ...

The fluoride controversy, where advocates and opponents argue in the media, is a distraction because the views of real and armchair scientists have been overruled. After weighing the scientific ...

Fluoride is added to the water systems of more than two thirds of Americans, the USA Today article reported, and is in dental products from toothpaste to mouth wash, the article noted ...

Other ingredients such as hydroxyapatite and various kinds of calcium and phosphates may help enhance the action of fluoride, but Martha McComas, a clinical associate professor of dentistry at the ...

highlighting the significant dental health problems in regions without fluoride, as a vocal minority continues to lobby councils to keep the vital mineral out of the water. In response to Mr ...

Where does the world get its silver? In 2023, silver mines produced 830.5 million ounces of silver. That total is projected to decline by about 1 percent to 823.5 million ounces in 2024.

Fluoride – it's added to the water systems of more than two thirds of Americans. It's in dental products from toothpaste to mouthwash. It's been the subject of long-running conspiracy theories.

For adults of a certain age, dental implant advertisements appear ubiquitous. But the price — at potentially thousands of dollars per tooth — might, for many people be a case of financially biting off ...