Posted on 06/12/2004 7:07:25 PM PDT by Coleus
On balance, I think flouridation is a good thing. There's no question that flourides help prevent tooth decay. My personal experience is that it's not just for kids. When we moved from flouridated to well water, I started getting more cavities. When I figured out what the problem was I started using ACT, and that seems to have fixed it. Flouridated toothpaste doesn't do the job completely for me.
That's anecdotal, of course, but it's actual experience. Most dentists seem to agree on this.
I think most bottled water doesn't have flouride.
They like that fizzy, carbonated stuff over there.
It still is a safe, effective, and cheap way to combat mosquito borne illnesses that kill millions world-wide annually.
I thought DDT had been outlawed?
As a Libertarian, I lean against having the government's making medial decisions for me. However, since water distribution is itself government-run -- and since medicine and dentistry are essentailly socialst in the US -- I have no objection to fluroide in the water.
I'd be interested in hearing what other Libertarians think about this issue...
When I was a kid, I visited the dentist every six months, as recommended. Seems every visit, I had AT LEAST one cavity. Today, at age 47, I have a mouth full of silver. I'm not sure when they started to add flouride; I think when I was in elementary school.
My three kids, age 17, 14 and 12 have had hardly any cavities. The dentist and pediatrician both agree it's due to the addition of the flouride.
Ping....if you're in one of your moods. Teehee...
Purity of Essence ping.
We use to have "swish" days in school. Fluoride swishes once a week in elementary school (back in the 70's), with threats of a lingering, too-horrible-to-be-imagined death if you actually swallowed the stuff.
I've had two cavities in my entire life; one tooth was a baby tooth and the other got pulled before I got braces. I haven't had a cavity since.
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Thanks, great site. I once mentioned DDT to my doctor and she became enraged saying that it killed many women by giving them breast cancer! I finally had to find a more rational physician. DDT is gone and they are still getting breast cancer; however, I can believe that herbicides and pesticides may be a contributor but not a primary cause.
I think that he was for fluoridation before he was against it.
During a visit to a water treatment plant (for consumption) for a college science course, our professor, being antiflouride was ahead of his time.
He noted that the treatment site was on a hill overlooking the city it provided water for. This was in 1974 before terrorism had reached our shores.
As plain as day I remember him stating that if a never do well wished to wipe out the city below, all he had to do was place an explosive charge at the flouride tank. Flouride, you see, is a deadly gas, that sinks to the ground...and would flow downhill, and kill any and all that inhales it.
Now, even though flouride helps fight tooth decay, it is a poison. I, personally, heve a well, which produces the coldest, cleanest water one can find (tested yearly). No way in hell would I want poison added to it.
Adding flouride to the water for anticavity's sake, to me is insane...
I haven't seen or heard of this silly debate since those nut-cakes of some off-the-wall group known as (I think) The Christian AntiCommunist Crusade picketed the SAC base in Wichita in 1959 while, as a young AF Lt., I was in combat crew training for a back seat in the B-47. Thanks for the Gen. Ripper clip, it too brought back some distant memories.
I bet this guy believes in Chem-trails too.
glad to see that you're a good american, concerned about poisons. Hope you'll see fit to help us ban Sodium Chloride, one component of which bursts into flame upon contact with air, and another component of which was used as a war gas..AND WHICH "THEY" ARE STILL USING FOR SO_CALLED WATER PURIFICATION IN SWIMMING POOLS WITH LITTLE INNOCENT BABIES AND STUFF.
(note- I used all caps, so I must have something important to say.)
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