Fluoride in toothpaste has largely prevented the need to keep adding it to drinking water, a major review has found.

A team of researchers from the Universities of Manchester, Dundee, and Aberdeen examined information from 157 studies that compared towns with fluoride added to their water supply to communities ...

The widespread use of toothpaste and mouthwashes with added fluoride in recent decades appears to have diminished the health ...

The study, which examined 157 research papers, reveals that the cavity-fighting power of fluoridated water has significantly diminished since the 1970s. The culprit? Not a supervillain, but something ...

The public health practice of adding fluoride to water supplies faces new scrutiny as a few recent reports raise concerns ...

The dental health benefits of adding fluoride to drinking water may be smaller now than before fluoride toothpaste was widely available, an updated Cochrane review has found. The team of researchers ...

However, a major review of 157 studies found that the benefit of fluoridation has dwindled since the 1970s when fluoride toothpaste became more widely available. The team found no studies that ...

“There’s no evidence to suggest that where water ... Studies of more than 5,700 children conducted before fluoride-fortified toothpaste became widely available in the mid-1970s found that ...

Researchers from three universities in the United Kingdom reviewed more than 150 studies that compared communities in high-income countries that had fluoride added to their water with those that had ...