If all 50 states banned water fluoridation, children would suffer 25.4 million additional decayed teeth over a five-year period.
A Troubling âWhat Ifâ?
June 16th, 2025 Children's Oral Health and Fluoride, Facts about Fluoride
Children’s Oral Health and Fluoride
Fluoride Varnish: What Parents Need to Know
June 11th, 2025 Children's Oral Health and Fluoride, Facts about Fluoride
Healthy gums and teeth are important to your child’s overall health. This is why your child’s doctor will talk with you about good dental habits even before your child’s first tooth comes in. Once your child has a tooth, your doctor or dentist may recommend that your child receive fluoride varnish treatments in the office […]
Exposure to Fluoride in Water: How itâs Measured Really Matters
April 2nd, 2024 Children's Oral Health and Fluoride, Facts about Fluoride, Fluoride and Public Health, Fluoride Dangers, Fluoride in water, What the Experts Say about Fluoride
Opponents of fluoride in water are quick to cite a 2019 Canadian study (Green et al.) to claim that fluoride affects the IQ of 3 and 4 year old children. A new peer-reviewed analysis refutes the validity of this study, showing that the Canadian researchers relied on invalid measures of both fluoride exposure and IQ. […]
School Nurses Voice Concern After County Ends Fluoridation
February 27th, 2024 Children's Oral Health and Fluoride, Communities Supporting Fluoride, Health Equity, What the Experts Say about Fluoride
When officials in Collier County, Florida, recently voted to end fluoridation, dental professionals and pediatricians were disheartened. School nurses were concerned too. Why? They see firsthand the negative impact of tooth decay on childrenâs ability to attend school, learn and thrive. After the countyâs board of commissioners made its decision, leading voices from the school […]
War Moved Kids to a Fluoridated Community
February 21st, 2024 Children's Oral Health, Children's Oral Health and Fluoride, Facts about Fluoride, Fluoride and Public Health
Amid the fighting of World War II, an urgent need to relocate children in Great Britain led to a powerful discovery â one that helped to revolutionize public health and childrenâs oral health. In a recent newspaper article, British dentist Ray Lowry told this fascinating story. War moved kids to a fluoridated community. Early in […]
Study: Fluoride in Water Has More Benefits than Free Dental Care
November 2nd, 2023 Children's Oral Health and Fluoride, Fluoride and Public Health, Health Equity
A new study has linked community water fluoridation (CWF) in Israel with lower rates of tooth decay. The authors found no link between decay and the effects of free dental services which were mandated in 2014. When Israel adopted nationwide water fluoridation in 2002, tooth decay among children fell significantly. The practice was discontinued in […]
Fluoride in the Emerald City â History of Fluoridation in Seattle, Washington
July 5th, 2023 Children's Oral Health and Fluoride, Communities Supporting Fluoride, Fluoride and Public Health
In the early 1950s, health officials in cities across the United States, including those in Seattle, Washington, were eager to replicate the massive success of the first longitudinal fluoridation study in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Seattle-King County Department of Public Health first proposed fluoridating Seattleâs water in 1951. The city council put the proposal to […]
Help For Kids’ Teeth: Another Study Reports âclinically significantâ Benefits of fluoride in Water
June 22nd, 2023 Children's Oral Health and Fluoride, Fluoride and Public Health, Fluoride, Oral Health, and Access to Care, Health Equity
A team of researchers in England examined the impact of fluoride in water and reported âstrong evidence for a highly clinically significant reductionâ in the amount and severity of tooth decay. This new study, The effect of community water fluoridation on dental caries in children and young people in England: an ecological study, focused on […]
Lack of Fluoridation Shocks Buffalo Health Advocates
February 1st, 2023 Children's Oral Health and Fluoride, Communities Supporting Fluoride, Fluoride and Public Health, Fluoride in the News
City officials and local health advocates in Buffalo, New York, were recently shocked to learn that the cityâs water system had stopped fluoridating drinking water in 2015. Regulations established by the Safe Drinking Water Act require a report each April of the previous yearâs water quality. Yet, water officials in Buffalo only disclosed this in […]
What Does the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Say About Fluoride?
January 31st, 2023 Children's Oral Health and Fluoride, Facts about Fluoride, What the Experts Say about Fluoride
The Campaign for Dental Health provides numerous resources to help you understand fluoridated water and address questions about fluoride. As part of that, we like to highlight what our partners say about fluoride. One of our closely aligned partners, the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD), has much to say about fluoride and fluoridated water. […]
