By the 1950s, the U.S. government’s Public Health Service and the American Dental Association acknowledged the success of ...

On a February evening, five Delray Beach city commissioners listened intently from the dais as Florida’s Surgeon General ...

A new study published in the journal of Health Science Reports found that aqueous broccoli extract to show similar efficacy to fluoride gel in improving the microhardness of demineralized ...

Utah lawmakers last week voted to pass the first U.S. statewide ban on adding fluoride to public water systems. The Utah Senate voted 18-8 in favor of the measure after it passed in the House.

While it contains fluoride, it also contains arsenic, lead, copper, manganese, iron and aluminum. It is a byproduct of phosphate mining operations. Rep. Stephanie Gricius, R-Eagle Mountain ...

It is a byproduct from phosphate mining operations. Gricius' bill softens pharmaceutical regulations so people who want fluoride can obtain it without a doctor's prescription. In this way ...

largely composed of calcium phosphate arranged in a crystalline structure called hydroxyapatite, is susceptible to erosion by acid secreted by oral bacteria, but the presence of fluoride in water ...

Fluorosilicic acid is the compound most widely used in water systems as it yields free fluoride rapidly when mixed with water. J.R. Simplot and Nutrien’s PCS Phosphate Company are among ...