Fluoride improves tooth enamel, making teeth more resistant to cavities and decay. That’s especially important for children who are still growing and often don’t have the best oral health habits.

Starting July 1, all of Florida will stop adding fluoride to drinking water in compliance with a new state law, prompting both logistical changes at treatment plants and questions from families ...

OCALA, Fla. — On Tuesday, the city of Ocala will formally begin the process of removing fluoride from drinking water. This comes as the city looks to fall in line with the new state law.

The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has questioned the safety of fluoride in drinking water. Too much fluoride can cause brown spots on teeth.

Fluoride remains one of the few tools that, when implemented with care, can meaningfully reduce health disparities. To retreat from it without replacement is not cautious. It is unjust.

A drinking fountain in Miami on May 16. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) There’s a legitimate debate to be had about adding fluoride to drinking water.

Opinion: DeSantis bans fluoride in Florida water, following RFK Jr.'s pro-tooth decay lead Which states have banned fluoride? As of May 16, two states had banned fluoride from public drinking water.

Fluoride, a mineral that occurs naturally in water, soil and air, has been shown to prevent dental cavities, or tooth decay. It works by strengthening the tooth's enamel, its hard outer surface ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Tuesday it will be moving to take ingestible prescription fluoride products for children off the market, citing concerns that the mineral alters the… ...

Fluoride is a naturally occurring mineral found in water, soil and plants. In the 1930s, researchers began noticing that people who drank water with high levels of fluoride ended up with mottled ...

The Florida House approved a bill that is setting the state up to become the second in the country to ban fluoride from being added to water supplies. The GOP-controlled House passed the bill (SB ...

Benefits Of Fluoride The biggest benefit of fluoride is that it can make your teeth more resistant to decay—it can reduce cavities by about 25 percent in children and adults, according to the CDC.