Brian T. Luong, DMD, is an orthodontist at Anaheim Hills Orthodontics and Santa Ana Orthodontics and Chief Dental Officer at Become Aligners. • Fluoride poisoning can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, ...

Tooth decay and related pain is one of the leading causes of missed school days for children in the United States. One proven way to reduce tooth decay is through fluoride, which strengthens tooth ...

In the first US study looking at whether the recommended fluoride levels in drinking water affects brain function, researchers have found that the hot-button mineral has no negative impacts on ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration on Friday moved to limit the use of fluoride supplements used to strengthen children’s teeth, the latest action by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has put four companies on notice for marketing “unapproved fluoride-containing ingestible drugs” for use by children under the age of 3 or children at low or ...

A meeting Wednesday at the Food and Drug Administration about fluoride supplements became, at one point, a contentious back-and-forth over whether the ingestible tablets harm children’s microbiomes or ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has advocated for the removal of fluoride ...

FLORIDA — Hundreds of new laws rolled out in Florida on Tuesday, July 1, and among those new laws is the banning of fluoride in the state’s water systems. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill to remove ...

Calgary removed fluoride from its water supply in 2011, but residents voted to reverse course after studies linked the move to worse dental health among children. By Vjosa Isai Reporting from Toronto ...

New research suggests that removing fluoride from public water would increase dental care costs and tooth decay for children across the United States. Researchers found removing fluoride was ...

Following a push by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and another Republican-led state, Florida this week banned the long-standing practice of adding fluoride to public water systems. Fluoride, a naturally ...

MIT researchers found that different algorithms can all be grouped into a ‘periodic table’ of AI. The idea for the table was an accident that emerged from identifying similarities between two ...