South Carolina's proposed bill to ban fluoride in public water sparks a debate over public health and dental benefits.

Florida is one step closer to outlawing fluoride in its municipal water supplies. A bill that would preemptively prevent local municipalities from adding fluoride to their water passed the Senate on a ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is calling for a halt to the use of fluoride. Kennedy is pushing for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to make new recommendations about fluoride. Fluoride is ...

There’s something in the water — an active debate over fluoride. Some on the Pasco City Council are pushing to remove it from the city’s water. The city is notifying them of the possible change and ...

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

Fluoride is credited with improving the dental health of children and adults for decades, but some South Carolina legislators ...

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

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to further regulate fluoride in drinking water because high levels could pose a risk to the intellectual development of children. U ...

(CNN) — US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praised Utah’s ban on fluoride when he announced he would tell the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to stop ...

(CNN) — The longstanding public health practice of adding fluoride to community drinking water is facing heavy scrutiny in the United States over questions about whether the benefits outweigh the ...

DADE CITY, Fla. -- Florida became the second state in the country after Utah to ban local governments from adding fluoride to their public water systems. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill at Simpson ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists fluoridation of drinking water as one of 10 great public health interventions of the 20th century because it led to a dramatic decline in cavities ...