When the clock struck 4 p.m. in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1945, something historic happened: Engineers in a water filtration plant added a controlled amount of fluoride into the water, making Grand Rapids the first city to implement fluoridation. It was a reaction to three decades of investigation into the effects of fluoride on teeth. As […]
Abigail Hakas
Abigail is a Pittsburgh-based freelance multimedia journalist and senior at Chatham University who is interning this fall with Point Park University's Next Generation Newsroom. Email her at abigailhakas@yahoo.com.