BOSTON, US: Among the countless controversial aspects of Donald Trump’s current tenure as the US president, the commitment by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to remove fluoride from the national water supply is not only a deeply misguided one but will also generate a range of damaging effects to the population’s oral health. Two American states, namely, Utah and Florida, have already instituted the ban, and others are set to follow. A study published this month by Boston-based researchers, however, outlines the calamities that await should the entire country follow suit.