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

Discover how fluoridated drinking water no longer provides benefits as commercial fluoride toothpaste is easily available.

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

The effectiveness of fluoridating drinking water has decreased over time, particularly with the widespread use of fluoride ...

Researchers from UK universities review whether water fluoridation is still effective in the era of fluoride toothpaste.

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

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 ...

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 ...