Fluoride helps protect teeth by making the hard outer layer—the enamel—more resistant to acid attacks by bacteria and sugars.

TUESDAY, Dec. 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — For decades, fluoride in drinking water has helped protect kids’ teeth from ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the recently appointed secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), has long promoted unfounded conspiracy theories regarding community water fluoridation. Now that he’s ...

Water runs through a faucet in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 31, 2025. While many professional societies continue to support adding fluoride to drinking water to prevent cavities, questions continue ...

Recent findings published in Science Advances provide new evidence regarding the long-term cognitive effects of consuming fluoridated water during childhood. The study suggests that growing up in ...

An Arizona state senator wants to ban fluoride additives in Arizona’s public drinking water. Sen. Janae Shamp, R-Surprise, is ...

NEW YORK — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he wants communities to stop fluoridating water, and he is setting the gears of government in motion to help make that happen. Kennedy ...

An Arizona lawmaker has proposed a bill to ban the addition of fluoride to public drinking water. Dental experts argue the ...

ErieWaterSurvey.com founder, Jared Staszewski, has urged Erie Water Works (EWW) to publicly recognize a historic federal ...

This May, in compliance with new state legislation HB81, Utah ended the decades old public health practice of adding fluoride to the public drinking water. The main argument for this change is that ...

Every time we turn on the water tap, we’re doing more than quenching thirst — we’re protecting smiles. For generations, community water fluoridation has quietly and powerfully helped Maryland children ...

Cape Fear Public Utility Authority (CFPUA) has temporarily suspended the addition of fluoride to treated drinking water.