{"id":226061,"date":"2025-02-24T15:40:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T20:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=226061"},"modified":"2025-02-24T15:42:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T20:42:47","slug":"podcast-fluoride-flak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2025\/02\/podcast-fluoride-flak\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Fluoride Flak"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_158112\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158112\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-158112 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HEA-048-UConnHealthPodcastLogoFY20_191206-800x1200-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The UConn Health Pulse Podcast logo.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HEA-048-UConnHealthPodcastLogoFY20_191206-800x1200-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HEA-048-UConnHealthPodcastLogoFY20_191206-800x1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HEA-048-UConnHealthPodcastLogoFY20_191206-800x1200-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HEA-048-UConnHealthPodcastLogoFY20_191206-800x1200-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HEA-048-UConnHealthPodcastLogoFY20_191206-800x1200-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HEA-048-UConnHealthPodcastLogoFY20_191206-800x1200.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UConn Health Pulse Podcast brings a variety of expertise on health topics to the general public.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In our public water supply for more than 80 years, fluoride is now a subject that\u2019s kicking up some controversy in some circles. On the latest <em>UConn Health Pulse<\/em> podcast,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/facultydirectory.uchc.edu\/profile?profileId=Katechia-Bina\">Dr. Bina Katechia<\/a>, interim chair of the UConn School of Medicine\u2019s Department of Pediatric Dentistry, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/facultydirectory.uchc.edu\/profile?profileId=Gopalakrishna-Aadarsh\">Dr. Aadarsh Gopalakrishna<\/a>, chair of the school\u2019s Division of General Dentistry, explain how fluoride contributes to oral health and public health and weigh in on whether the benefits outweigh the potential risks of keeping it in our water.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>There\u2019ve been so many multiple studies done on the benefits of fluoride, but there are also studies that show when communities have removed fluoride from their water, then cavities tend to increase. <cite> &#8212 Dr. Bina Katechia<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Listen now:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: none;min-width: min(100%, 430px);height: 150px\" title=\"Fluoride Flak: Dental Experts Weigh In\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?from=embed&amp;i=wpyru-1810b09-pb&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=1&amp;font-color=auto&amp;rtl=1&amp;logo_link=episode_page&amp;btn-skin=3267a3&amp;size=150\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn School of Dental Medicine faculty weigh in on public health benefits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":226062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2231,2166,179],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2010],"class_list":["post-226061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-well-being","category-sdm","category-uconn-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 08:22:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226061"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226072,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226061\/revisions\/226072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/226062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226061"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=226061"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=226061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}