Recently the largest unfluoridated city in the Untied States, voted to fluoridae its water.
I admit to being jealous of my sons for growing up in a time when vaccines spared them miseries like the measles, mumps and polio scares that marred my childhood.
Alexandria, VA, USA – July 28, 2011 The International and American Associations for Dental Research have released in its a study that investigated bone fluoride levels in individuals with osteosarcoma, which is a rare, primary malignant bone tumor that is more prevalent in males.
WASHINGTON - in January 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced important steps to ensure that standards and guidelines on fluoride in drinking water continue to protect the American people while promoting good dental health.
LITTLEROCK, Ark. -- March 4, 2011: Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe signed a community water fluoridation bill into law, which will bring its proven health benefits to more than 148,000 Arkansas residents.
Sixty-five years ago, on January 25, 1945, the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, added fluoride to its municipal water system and community water fluoridation began. Since that day, this simple, safe, and inexpensive public health intervention has contributed to a remarkable decline in tooth decay in the United States, with each generation enjoying better oral health than the previous generation.
LINCOLN, Neb. – On April 17, 2008, the unicameral Nebraska legislature took a tremendous step toward improving the oral health of Nabraska’s citizens by passing LB 245 – a new law that calls on cities and towns with at least 1,000 residents to adjust the level of fluoride in their public water systems to help prevent tooth decay.
BATON ROUGE, La. – On July 8, 2008, Governor Bobby Jindal signed SB 312, which mandates that community water systems statewide with at least 5,000 hookups provide cost estimates to the state for implementing fluoridation by March 2009. The state will then work with each system to find grants and state budget funds to implement fluoridation community by community.
“I am proud of my family’s healthy lifestyle and yet my children have needed a lot of dental work. I grew up in a fluoridated city and never had this kind of dental decay. All kids need the benefits of fluoridation, no matter where they live.”
