Oral care has gone in for a deep cleaning. The category, once primarily about cleaning teeth and freshening breath, has taken ...

While your focus has been on getting your teeth clean, some of the ingredients in your toothpaste might be making you sick.

A federal judge last month handed a major victory to opponents of water fluoridation, capping a seven-year legal battle over whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has failed to protect the ...

Using fluoride in drinking water to improve dental health may be less effective now than it was in the past, according to a new major review. Ten per cent of people in England have fluoride added ...

Exactly what did the scientists discover? The studies of more than 5,700 children conducted before fluoride-fortified toothpaste became widely available in the mid-1970s found that adding fluoride to ...

The studies of more than 5,700 children conducted before fluoride-fortified toothpaste became widely available in the mid-1970s found that adding fluoride to water systems reduced the number of ...

In particular, toothpaste that includes fluoride has become widely available and more commonly used since the 1970s. In more recent studies, fluoride in water was linked to a difference of decay ...

The public health practice of adding fluoride to water supplies faces new scrutiny as a few recent reports raise concerns about potential health risks and suggest the benefits may not be as ...

A U.S. District Court judge in California said earlier this week that adding fluoride to drinking water presents an “unreasonable risk” to young children, and especially babies. That ruling earlier ...

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. A new factory shows how sodium ion will gain an increasing share of the U.S. energy storage market as developers seek to reduce ...

Educate patients before and during pregnancy. Patients need to understand which products contain high levels of fluoride and seek alternatives to protect developing brains. Use hydroxyapatite ...