Table 4. Select Quotations From Mothers on Child Dental Fluoride Information From Community Members.

Community member	Quote
Supporting fluoride use for children
Support group for mothers of children with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder	“They’d say try different things, like try a softer toothbrush. Make sure it’s small. Dip it in some mouthwash if you’re uncomfortable with the fact—if you’re concerned about cavities, make sure that when they do start going to the dentist, they get fluoride treatments. Stuff like that. So, it was just kind of common-sense things that were coupled with people that had tried it.”
Friends	“Because when they first started doing [fluoride varnish at pediatrician visits], everybody [in my mom-group] was kind of like—‘What?’ People were trying to look it up, like ‘is this really what’s recommended?’ [and] we all found yeah, like they said, it is recommended.”
	“With all the [checkups at pediatrician], they always ask if we want to do the fluoride. We always say, ‘yeah’...I feel like generally among my mom-friends, that’s accepted. Everybody does that.”
Not supporting fluoride use for children
Community	“I’ve never heard of people being against fluoride toothpaste, but I’ve always heard people say, ‘Don’t put fluoride in my water.’…It definitely wasn’t anybody close to me. The closest somebody would have been would be one of my friends’ parents or something and they mentioned it in passing.”
Community	“My husband and I researched a little bit about why isn’t our water fluoridated. And I think it was up for town debate on a township level at some point. And I can’t remember how long ago that was. But the decision was that it wasn’t the townships place to be medicating the public. They considered it a medication.”