Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. water from a faucet fills a plastic cup (CREDIT: ALASTAIR PIKE/AFP via Getty Images.) Fluoridation has well established benefits ...

Dentists in Utah can tell rather quickly whether their patients grew up in the Salt Lake City area or in a different part of the state. Salt Lake County, neighboring Davis County to the north and ...

Fluoride in drinking water has become a hot-button topic. Many of the world's healthiest countries have banned it, but other ...

Matt Fuchs lives in Maryland and writes about health, science, and technology. Matt Fuchs lives in Maryland and writes about health, science, and technology. Right now, it’s politically hot to spit ...

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Political controversy has stoked new conversations around the fluoridation of water and whether the mineral is safe to consume. Water fluoridation, or the practice of adding fluoride to sources of ...

Medical experts have warned that ending fluoridation will have negative consequences for oral health. By Emily Cochrane Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida signed a bill into law on Thursday that bans the ...

As debates reignite over the safety of fluoride in drinking water, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is leading a push to revise national health guidance—one that could reshape how millions ...

In Alabama, recent school-based screenings show that more than one in five kindergarteners and nearly one in four third graders have untreated tooth decay, rates that exceed national averages.

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