Is Fluoride in Drinking Water Safe? A New Study Reignites a Long-Standing Debate

A study published in JAMA Pediatrics has given new life to a long-running debate: whether adding fluoride to drinking water is a prudent way to prevent tooth decay, or a potentially toxic mistake. The research, which focused on mother-child pairs from six Canadian cities, found that high fluoride exposure during pregnancy was correlated with lower IQ scores among young children, especially boys.

 Is There Still a Good Case for Water Fluoridation?

It’s a 75-year-old technology. Maybe we should rethink it.

 Questionable study casts a cloud over the 75th anniversary of water fluoridation

Despite its many weaknesses, this study is likely to confuse or scare parents who have heard about its result — many of whom may be unaware of the concerns about the research voiced by the scientific community. Sadly, even flawed research papers can have negative long-term impacts, especially when they are published by reputable journals.

 The Fluoride Debate: The Pros and Cons of Fluoridation

This paper reviews the different aspects of fluoridation, their effectiveness in dental caries prevention and their risks. It was performed in the PubMed and the Google Scholar databases in January 2018 without limitation as to the publication period.

Eighty Years Of Conflicting Data: What The Fluoride-IQ Debate Tells Us About Public Health

But what made this finding exceptionally provocative is that fluoride is in public drinking water. Meaning, more than 200,000 million Americans...

Water fluoridation-an update

Water fluoridation is a controversy that just doesn’t seem to go away, despite the overwhelming evidence of successfully reducing the rate of cavities in children (and adults), while also having little or weak evidence that there are any risks.

Adding fluoride to water supplies

Adding fluoride to water supplies to prevent dental caries is controversial. K K Cheng, Iain Chalmers, and Trevor A Sheldon identify the issues it raises in the hope of furthering constructive public consultation and debate.

Americans Have Been Overdosed On Fluoride In Drinking Water

The United States is one of the world's largest fluoride consumers. Americans are gravely exposed to fluoride that is naturally found in the environment and some fluoride-based products. Larger demand for toothpaste and fluoride-based drugs are mostly consumed by Americans to keep them healthy and to aid them in their daily functions. Most Americans aren’t aware that they have been exposed to large amounts of fluoride. Consuming fluoride-rich water, using fluoride-formulated toothpaste and taking fluoride-based drugs can cause health problems. How can you prevent fluoride toxicity then?

Are The Concerns About Water Fluoridation Legit?

The bottom line is that if you want to build a case against water fluoridation — and, apparently, many people do — it is possible to do so. But the case is weak. The risks are small, and the public health benefits are big. The evidence simply doesn’t favor stopping this practice, nor does it favor blocking it from starting — unless that’s the mind control talking.

Does Adding Fluoride To Water Have Any Side Effects?

What are the proven side effects of drinking water containing fluoride? Like all things, it depends in the dose. Fluoride is a naturally occurring component of drinking water (and tea leaves), and humans noticed early in history that people drinking some waters were healthier than others: their teeth were better.

Feds Say It's Time To Cut Back On Fluoride In Drinking Water

Federal health officials Monday changed the recommended amount of fluoride in drinking water for the first time since 1962, cutting by almost half the maximum amount of fluoride that should be added to drinking supplies.

Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Review of Fluoridation and Regulation Issues

The fluoridation of drinking water often generates both strong support and opposition within communities. This practice is controversial because fluoride has been found to have beneficial effects at low levels and is intentionally added to many public water supplies; however, at higher concentrations, it is known to have toxic effects. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates the amount of fluoride that may be present in public water supplies to protect against fluoride’s adverse health effects.

Fluoride: Just when you thought it was safe to drink the water...

A public health body is once again campaigning for councils to add fluoride to our drinking water. But the science in favour is not as clear-cut as it seems...

Fluoride: Killing Us Softly

There’s nothing like a glass of cool, clear water to quench one’s thirst. But the next time you or your child reaches for one, you might want to question whether that water is in fact, too toxic to drink. If your water is fluoridated, the answer may well be yes.

It’s In The Water: The Debate Over Fluoridation Lives On

Many people take for granted the addition of fluoride into public drinking water systems that aims to prevent tooth decay. It’s a seven-decade-old public health effort. But it’s not nearly as universally accepted as one might think.

Smile! Fluoride in tap water IS safe...

People living in areas where water fluoridation schemes are in place are less likely to have tooth decay than those in other regions, according to a Public Health England (PHE) report.

Tooth and Nail: Fluoride Fight Cracks Portland's Left

In the 1950s, after health authorities began fluoridating U.S. water supplies, they faced opposition from groups like the John Birch Society, which called it "an unconstitutional mass medication of the public." Sixty years later, the fight over fluoridation has erupted in Portland, where the battle has drawn in the city's craft-beer brewers, organic-food purveyors and environmentalists. Even some of the city's famed indie-rock musicians are taking sides.

Top Medical Journal Labels Fluoride a Neurotoxin

Most Americans drink fluoride every day as part of what critics refer to as an involuntary mass-medication program. Organized dentistry argues that it is good for children’s teeth. However, according to a recent report in one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals, the industrial chemical added to water supplies across much of the United States is actually a dangerous developmental neurotoxicant.

What Do We Know About Fluoride?

Earlier this year, officials in Pinellas County in Florida decided to remove the cavity-fighting chemical from its water supply. Was it a mistake?

Why You (Still) Shouldn't Worry About Fluoridated Drinking Water

Note too that since fluoridation has been proven safe decades ago, there is no need for new studies, any more than we need new studies proving the Earth is round. The facts haven’t changed. But conspiracy theories never get forgotten while facts do, so in all such cases of fiction vs science (creationism, flat earthers, antivaxxers, antifluoriders, etc.), those who speak truth need to constantly re-educate people. Fear persists longer and spreads farther than truth.

The Government Says We're Putting Too Much Fluoride in Our Water

But calm down, conspiracy theorists: Fluoridation is still not a mind-control plot.

The Untold Story of Fluoridation: Revisiting the Changing Perspectives

The discovery of fluoride in dentistry has revolutionized treatment modalities with a new aspect of prevention and conservation of tooth structure coming into foreplay. Since then, there has been a lot of research on both topical and systemic fluoridation in an overzealous attempt to control the most debilitating dental problem of caries. Although topical fluoride is still being widely used as a preventive measure for dental caries, systemic administration of the same has gained major criticism worldwide due to the low margin of safety of fluoride and no control over the amount of individual intake when administered on a community level.

Water fluoridation not enough to shrink dental health inequalities, study finds

Water fluoridation provides a modest benefit for children’s teeth in an era of fluoride toothpastes, but does not shrink inequalities in dental health between rich and poor communities, research has revealed.