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... Both the American Dental Association (ADA) and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend fluoridating community water and advise prescribing fluoride supplements for children who do not get adequate fluoride dosages through their water.

Nevertheless, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under anti-vaccine advocate and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr states without clear evidence that fluoride supplements harm children's microbiome and pose other health risks.

The ADA pushed back strongly, telling Ars Technica in a written statement that the scientific studies the HHS references as evidence of harms "do not in fact demonstrate any harmful effects for the concentrations of fluoride prescribed by physicians and dentists." ...

What does Sec Kennedy seem to have against the children of America having strong, healthy teeth?

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... "It is a complete mystery to me why they think that this is an appropriate way to make the American public healthier," says Scott Tomar, a dentist and epidemiologist at the University of Illinois Chicago College of Dentistry. The decision, he says, "is based on some of the flimsiest evidence that I've seen."

Fluoride supplements have been used for decades, Tomar notes, and have proven safe and effective for decreasing cavities. The FDA is leaning on studies in noncomparable settings, such as rural China, where there is high exposure to fluoride from burning coal indoors, he says.

"They're exposed to fluoride in their food and their drinking water and in the air, in addition to all the other combustion products in that air. And on top of that, they're in areas with very high levels of fluoride in their contaminated surface water," Tomar says. "We would never allow that level of exposure, or anything remotely close to that level of exposure, in the United States." ...

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So Sec Kennedy seems to be basing his decisions upon irrelevant data?