Community fluoridation – considered one of the top public health success stories of the last century – has been banned in Utah, with a new law taking effect Wednesday.

With Florida set to ban fluoride in public drinking water, health officials in Utah — the first state to impose a similar prohibition — say Floridians without fluoridated water will suffer the most.

The Beehive State banned fluoride in drinking water systems starting Wednesday. Are other states flushing fluoridated water too?

Utah is now officially the first state in the nation to pull fluoride from public drinking water after lawmakers banned it during the most recent legislative session.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — With Utah’s first-in-the-nation ban on fluoride in public drinking water set to take effect Wednesday, dentists who treat children and low-income patients say they’re bracing for an increase in tooth decay among the state’s most vulnerable people.

Utah became the first state in the US to remove fluoride from its public drinking water. Will others follow suit? CNN’s Meg Tirrell reports.

Senator Keefer's proposed bill mirrors similar legislation that recently passed in Utah, which became the first state to ban fluoride from its public drinking water in the U.S. In April, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the creation of a new task force to review guidance on water fluoridation.

Thousands of people in Utah will have access to free fluoride varnish starting next week, thanks to a donation made in response to a new Utah law that went into effect Wednesday.