Helping Parents Find Answers
Parents and caregivers are reading about fluoride in the news more often these days. These headlines can generate a variety of questions in parents’ minds. Health professionals should be aware of 
a new online resource that provides answers to the most common questions that parents ask about fluoride.
The CareQuest Institute for Oral Health has created a web page called Fluoride: Top 10 Questions Parents Ask. Each question is answered clearly and concisely. The Institute is a leading policy and resource center that helps to inform debates and discussions. The answers to these 10 questions include a number of hyperlinks allowing parents to learn more by exploring the reports, studies and other articles that are cited.
Within the Top 10 Questions page is a clickable gold box, which gives parents access to an even larger document with more Q’s and A’s.
Fluoride information that is false or incomplete can confuse parents. This is a crucial time for health professionals to direct families and patients to sources they can trust. In a recent survey, 58% of young adults said they had made a health decision based on social media misinformation that they later regretted.
