Fluoride remains the cornerstone of preventive dentistry, and researchers have analyzed the many delivery methods of fluoride ...

As a biologic and naturopathic dentist with more than 20 years of experience, the difference between fluoride applied topically to teeth versus systemic water fluoridation is substantial. Topical ...

Primary care clinicians may face barriers to using a topical fluoride varnish (TFV), including time constraints and the assumption that dentists are already administering it, according to a study ...

Semiannual topical application of silver diamine fluoride (SDF) or sodium fluoride was no more effective than a placebo in preventing children from developing approximal caries. The 18-month clinical ...

There is one fly in the toothpaste, as it were. There remains good evidence that fluoride has a beneficial effect on the development of caries in teeth yet to have “erupted” and that have not been ...

Dentists are proving no match for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the battle over fluoride. Utah and Florida have this year banned the cavity-fighting mineral from drinking water and several other Republican ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated on May 15 to correct the acronym for the American Dental Hygienists’ Association. An ingestible fluoride prescription drug product for children was pulled from ...