Highlights
- Resource: The CareQuest Institute for Oral Health offers a dedicated web page addressing fluoride-related questions.
- Content: Parents can find clear answers to the top 10 questions about fluoride, along with hyperlinks to further resources.
- Importance: Reliable fluoride information is essential for guiding health decisions, especially in light of misinformation.
- Survey Insight: A significant portion of young adults report regretting health decisions influenced by social media misinformation.
Parents and caregivers are reading about Fluoride in the news more often these days. These headlines can generate a variety of questions in parents’ minds. Health professionals should be aware of a new online resource that provides answers to the most common questions that parents ask about fluoride.
The CareQuest Institute for Oral Health has created a web page called Fluoride: Top 10 Questions Parents Ask. Each question is answered clearly and concisely. The Institute is a leading policy and resource center that helps to inform debates and discussions. The answers to these 10 questions include a number of hyperlinks allowing parents to learn more by exploring the reports, studies, and other articles that are cited.
Within the Top 10 Questions page is a clickable gold box, which gives parents access to an even larger document with more Q’s and A’s.
Fluoride information that is false or incomplete can confuse parents. This is a crucial time for health professionals to direct families and patients to sources they can trust. In a recent survey, 58% of young adults said they had made a health decision based on social media misinformation that they later regretted.
