The Louisiana House Health and Welfare Committee voted 4-11 to defeat a proposal to ban fluoride in public water systems, with the GOP-controlled state Senate having previously voted 24-10 to ...

Previous reviews by public health experts and dental professionals have not shown any serious health risks with the products.

In 2003, when Salt Lake City started adding fluoride to its water, Dr. Brent Larson had been practicing dentistry for 20 ...

Medical experts have encouraged the use of fluoride in drinking water for its ability to strengthen enamel and prevent ...

The ban marks an unsettling and deeply anti-scientific trend taking hold among the GOP — and even some MAGA allies are ...

Utah Republicans have sometimes been critical of President Donald Trump, but the state has already enacted several laws that ...

Florida passed legislation banning fluoride in public drinking water last week, making it the second to do so in the United ...

Adding fluoride to public water systems started in the United States in 1945. The sponsor of the Utah legislation, Republican Rep. Stephanie Gricius, acknowledged fluoride has benefits ...

Health regulators announced plans to phase out fluoride-containing supplements sometimes used to strengthen children's teeth, ...

The law goes into effect July 1. The bill removes fluoride from the state's legal definition of acceptable "water quality ...

Spencer Cox on March 29 after being approved by the Utah State Senate in late February. Why are states banning fluoride in public water? How many states have nixed the mineral from drinking water?