POLK COUNTY, Fla. — The city of Lakeland unanimously voted on Monday to stop adding fluoride to its drinking water. Since November, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo has been urging ...

After Florida’s surgeon general came to Polk County Friday to urge cities and counties statewide to quit adding fluoride to drinking water, a majority of Lakeland’s city commissioners said ...

According to Florida’s Department of Health, Bartow is one of five cities in Polk County that still add fluoride to drinking water, along with Auburndale, Haines City, Lakeland, and Lake Alfred.

There will be 17 provider offices in the clinic and it will become home to the Psychiatry Resident Clinic for Graduate ...

There’s a legitimate debate to be had about adding fluoride to drinking water. The practice has long been lauded as a victory for dental health because the chemical can strengthen tooth enamel ...

The discovery that fluoride can help people maintain healthy teeth dates back to Colorado Springs in the early 1900s. That’s when a young dentist named Frederick McKay noticed brown staining on ...

May 21, 2025 — Until recently, you probably hadn’t thought much about fluoride. It’s been added to public water supplies since the 1940s to help prevent cavities. The CDC named water ...

LAKELAND, Fla. (WFLA) — An arrest has been made in the Lakeland convenience store shooting that left one man dead and a woman injured on Tuesday. “It definitely hurts. He was a good friend ...

AND AN ERA OF FLUORIDATED FLUORIDATED TOOTHPASTE AND MOUTHWASHES. IT MAKES NO SENSE TO HAVE FLUORIDE IN OUR WATER. THE EVIDENCE AGAINST FLUORIDE IS OVERWHELMING. THE HEALTH SECRETARY, ROBERT F ...

THE CASE IS NOW UNDER INVESTIGATION. ALSO BREAKING FLORIDA, OFFICIALLY THE SECOND STATE IN THE COUNTRY TO BAN FLUORIDE FROM PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS. TODAY, GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS SIGNED A BILL ...