Posted on 05/13/2025 3:36:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Tuesday that it will move to phase out fluoride supplements used to strengthen children's teeth, the Associated Press (AP) reported.
The Context
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has frequently railed against fluoride—which medical and dental experts say can be crucial in preventing tooth decay and cavities, especially in children who live in areas with lower levels of fluoride in drinking water.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said fluoride makes teeth stronger and reduces cavities by replacing minerals lost during normal wear and tear. Federal officials backed adding fluoride to drinking water in 1950 and in 1962 introduced guidelines for how much should be added to water.
What To Know
The FDA will conduct a scientific review of fluoride dental supplements for children by late October with the goal of removing them from the market, according to the AP.
The agency does not plan to formally withdraw the products, since the process for doing so would take years. Instead, it will ask manufacturers to voluntarily pull their products from the market, the AP reported, citing an administration official.
Tuesday's announcement from the FDA comes after Kennedy said last month that he would order the CDC to stop recommending that fluoride be added to tap water.
Kennedy lauded the FDA's move to phase out fluoridated dental supplements for children, saying in a statement Tuesday: "Ending the use of ingestible fluoride is long overdue. This decision brings us one step closer to delivering on President [Donald] Trump's promise to Make America Healthy Again."
The health secretary has strongly opposed the fluoridation of public water supplies, referring to fluoride as "industrial waste" and a "dangerous neurotoxin." His views have spurred a number of state-level bans and lawsuits targeting products containing fluoride.
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“Ice cream, Mandrake! Children’s ice cream!”
Oh great, we are going to have a generation of kids that have that classic decayed English smile...
Yeah, but fluoride makes you stupid.
I have an idea. Why don’t we put fluoride in children’s toothpaste?
I sometimes wonder how many more iqs I would have if it weren’t for the floride.
fluoride in toothpaste is almost universal. No reason for anyone to have cavities today except for not brushing.
Sodium fluoride is in rat poison and toothpaste. It is a toxin.
I use a fluoride-free toothpaste.
Not if they get their teeth coated, and brush with a fluoride toothpaste. Just don’t make them DRINK it.
When I was a kid we were told to use 1/4 - 1/2” of toothpaste because it had fluoride.
Toothbrush bristles were smaller then so that pretty much was all you needed.
Then toothpaste started tasting good - Gleem and Closeup and Stripe were like candy - and the TV commercials showing that long strip of paste with a curly-q at the end....
And suddenly more fluoride was better for you.
Not unless lazy parents don’t get the kids to floss and brush with toothpaste before bedtime-and quit putting Little Debbies, Twinkies, cake, or other sugar-filled garbage like that in their school lunches-try some healthy fresh fruit instead. And quit giving the kids candy just to shut them up. Fluoride is poison-a by-product of fertilizer. when I lived in the city, I drank bottled water and had a filter for tap water to avoid that s***...
Yet dental care cost and procedures have consistently grown during this era of fluoride.
Greedy Ba$7@rd$!!
Inevitable when an insurance company and the parallel bureaucracy take over.
My father grew up in the 1930’s in Texas. They had a naturally higher amount of flouride in their water. When he died at 90 he had one filing in his mouth, put there when a young Navy dentist was practicing doing filling. I’ll take my chances with flouride and go for good teeth.
No offense, but there is a fundamental ignorance about that statement. The ADA thanks you /s.
1. Fluoride in toothpaste does NOTHING because it simply adheres to the enamel...and is then washed away by saliva and eating. People would need to brush after EVERY meal, snack and non-water drink to have an impact. And this ignores the absorption into the bloodstream of fluoride while brushing. This statement by a toothpaste manufacturer,
“When the fluoride rinse reaches your teeth, the fluoride is absorbed into the enamel and remineralizes and replenishes the lost calcium and phosphorus that keep your teeth strong.”
is patently false. A lie. In fact, ‘experts’ state that you’re not supposed to rinse after brushing or “it washes the fluoride away”...which belies what happens when you swallow fluoride that is at a concentration 200,000% higher than in fluoridated drinking water (which is why the ADA added the poison warning and “do not swallow” on toothpaste packaging).
2. Even career dentists are ignorant of the role of oral microbiota. The LAST thing anyone should be doing for oral health is using mouthwash or any activity which kills oral microbiota. Result of otherwise: Decay. Additionally, fluoride itself is an antimicrobial.
3. A term of childhood ingestion of fluoride ‘vitamins’ during adult teeth formation in the gums results in incredibly decay-resistant adult teeth. I know: I was part of an early FDA study as a child. My only regret: Not quitting soda decades earlier (gumline enamel erosion by phosphoric acid in sodas may eventually cause me problems, but atypical tooth decay does not exist for either me or my sister). In contrast, my parents have annual problems DESPITE their regimen of oral hygiene, which includes fluoride toothpaste.
All anecdotal, of course, courtesy of the decades-long obstinance of the ADA. But difficulty validating any of my statements doesn’t make any of them untrue: They are factual.
Footnote: To be clear, I do not support either water fluoridation or fluoride treatments at the dentist (waste of $$). Nor do I support oral ingestion of fluoride supplements by adults or fluoride toothpaste (I use fluoride-free). Other than my personal experience via that study as a child - and its lifelong oral benefits without side effects - I am positively anti-fluoride in regards to the ‘establishment’...
There is MUCH hyperbole on fluoride. DECADES-worth. The establishment will assuredly use the courts against rfk jr on this, and I sincerely doubt that I’ll live to see the truth revealed about all the lies fed to the public since water fluoridation was launched in 1945.
Your choice, of course-but the manufactured fluoride in municipal water supplies and toothpaste is NOT the natural substance found in groundwater/wells in some areas-it is a by-product of phosphate fertilizer and aluminum manufacture, among other products.
That is too close to hazardous waste for me to put on teeth-mine except for 2 fakes/crowns in front due to a skateboard mishap at age 11. No fluoride-just healthy organic diet and dental hygiene I learned from parents...
You never “drank” the fluoride in schools. You swished it around and then spit it out.
Let's not get crazy.
Fluoride is a by-product of the phosphate fertilizer industry and the production of aluminum-if you have never heard that-duckduck it, grok it, etc that is what it says...
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