Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. water from a faucet fills a plastic cup (CREDIT: ALASTAIR PIKE/AFP via Getty Images.) Fluoridation has well established benefits ...

Dentists in Utah can tell rather quickly whether their patients grew up in the Salt Lake City area or in a different part of the state. Salt Lake County, neighboring Davis County to the north and ...

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Matt Fuchs lives in Maryland and writes about health, science, and technology. Matt Fuchs lives in Maryland and writes about health, science, and technology. Right now, it’s politically hot to spit ...

A new long-term study contradicts recent claims that fluoridated water negatively impacts brain function and intelligence.

In 2023, Brigham City’s residents voted in favor of keeping fluoride in the city’s water to reduce tooth decay. But in May 2025, Utah introduced a statewide water fluoridation ban, overriding its ...

When you pour yourself a cup of tap water, you might not think about how it’s impacting your dental health. But the nearly three-quarters of Americans who live in jurisdictions that fluoridate their ...

In New York, 336 community water systems, out of a total of 2,790, have fluoridated water. These 336 community water systems provide water to more than 13 million people, or about 72% of all New ...

Warren Loeppky has been a pediatric dentist in the Canadian city of Calgary for 20 years. Over the last decade, he says, tooth decay in children he’s seen has become more common, more aggressive and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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.

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