Year: 2011
Resolution Number: 2
Action Taken: Approved as Amended
Status:
Author(s): Annette Mercatante, MD
Sponsor: Carolyn Bird, MD
On behalf of: Oakland County Delegation, and Annette Mercatante, MD, for the Michigan Association of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Physicians
Committee: D (Public Health)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS endorse the newly established guidelines for water fluoridation at 0.7 ppm to reduce the occurrence of dental fluorosis while maintaining strong support for the public health benefits of water fluoridation in communities that do not have naturally occurring fluoride at optimal protective levels in ground water sources; and be it further RESOLVED: That MSMS asks it’s AMA Delegation to have the AMA support the new fluoridation standards on a national level. RATIONALE: The Committee discussed that with the recent changes in the fluoridation standards and reduction of levels it could create a negative connotation towards the use of fluoride. Members of the Committee stressed the importance of the use of fluoride, especially with children and also rural areas (i.e. water wells), and that the support of the new standards should not just be at a state level but also on a national one.
RESOLVED: That MSMS endorse the newly established guidelines for water fluoridation at 0.7 ppm to reduce the occurrence of dental fluorosis while maintaining strong support for the public health benefits of water fluoridation in communities that do not have naturally occurring fluoride at optimal protective levels in ground water sources; and be it further RESOLVED: That MSMS asks it’s AMA Delegation to have the AMA support the new fluoridation standards on a national level. RATIONALE: The Committee discussed that with the recent changes in the fluoridation standards and reduction of levels it could create a negative connotation towards the use of fluoride. Members of the Committee stressed the importance of the use of fluoride, especially with children and also rural areas (i.e. water wells), and that the support of the new standards should not just be at a state level but also on a national one.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Support of Revised Guidelines for Water Fluoridation