The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced it will begin the process of pulling prescription fluoride drops and tablets for children off the market. The supplements are usually given to kids at high risk for cavities.

The federal government and some state legislatures are increasingly drawing attention to what they claim are the risks associated with fluoride, a mineral that’s been used for decades in community water systems, toothpastes and mouth rinses to prevent tooth decay.

Dentists fiercely contest the notion that the harms of fluoride outweigh the benefits.

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      7 hours ago

      Prescriptions are still fine.

      This article is about the FDA pulling approval from prescription fluoride. Reading comprehension is hard, I know.

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          Impressively ignorant and single minded take. Remove a possible solution from everyone because there is some other solution that may not work for everyone?

          Get your crackpot bullshit out of here please, any method that gets humans flouride to protect their teeth is good, and defending less choices to accomplish that, or removing it from municipal water is incredibly stupid and must be being done for some shady reason by our chief worm brain and his cohort of dentist office owning buddies.

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          Prescriptions are still fine.

          You don’t need a prescription.

          Are you just being intentionally argumentative?

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      “Well I sort of agree with my flawed understanding of what they’re doing so it must be fine.”

      We’ve already played this game with abortion. Stop justifying insanity.

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      Do you really believe they will have fluoride prescriptions?

      Edit: from the article: will begin the process of pulling prescription fluoride drops and tablets for children off the market.