After three hours of impassioned pleas and dueling science among dozens of dentists, the Melbourne City Council voted early Wednesday to stop adding fluoride to the city's drinking water.

The debate about the benefits and risks of fluoride is ongoing, as RFK Jr. — incoming President Trump’s pick for HHS secretary — pushes to remove it from the U.S. water supply. "Fluoride is ...

Attorneys for the Biden administration said Friday they would seek to challenge a court loss last year that could pave the way for the Trump administration to ban the use of fluoride in water.

Further, fluoride, when not naturally occurring in water supplies, is extracted from calcium deposits in phosphate rock and not from hazardous waste. Talk to us > Give us your news tips .

The Courier-Mail and its sister publications across Queensland launched the State of Decay series, highlighting the significant dental health problems in regions without fluoride. However ...

Fluoride has long been recognized for its benefits in preventing tooth decay, which is why it has been included in public water systems across many countries. However, recent findings from the ...

LEBANON, Ore. - Longtime denizens of this town of 20,000 recalled widespread tooth decay among children before the city council voted to add fluoride to the drinking water two decades ago.

Called fluoride, it's colourless ... fluorosis (permanent mottling of the teeth caused by disrupting the way that calcium is stored and distributed though the enamel) it's not otherwise harmful ...

More than 200 million people in the United States live in areas where fluoride is added to tap water. According to the most recent data available, 24 other countries around the world — including ...