Posted on 01/07/2011 6:00:50 AM PST by markomalley
Fluoride in drinking water — credited with dramatically cutting cavities and tooth decay — may now be too much of a good thing. It's causing spots on some kids' teeth.
A reported increase in the spotting problem is one reason the federal government will announce Friday it plans to lower the recommended limit for fluoride in water supplies — the first such change in nearly 50 years.
About 2 out of 5 adolescents have tooth streaking or spottiness because of too much fluoride, a surprising government study found recently. In some extreme cases, teeth can even be pitted by the mineral — though many cases are so mild only dentists notice it.
Health officials note that most communities have fluoride in their water supplies, and toothpaste has it too. Some kids are even given fluoride supplements.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is announcing a proposal to change the recommended fluoride level to 0.7 milligrams per liter of water. And the Environmental Protection Agency will review whether the maximum cutoff of 4 milligrams per liter is too high.
The standard since 1962 has been a range of 0.7 to 1.2 milligrams per liter.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the splotchy tooth condition, fluorosis, is unexpectedly common in kids ages 12 through 15. And it appears to have grown much more common since the 1980s.
"One of the things that we're most concerned about is exactly that," said an administration official who was not authorized to speak publicly before the release of the report. The official described the government's plans in an interview with The Associated Press.
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About 2 out of 5 adolescents have tooth streaking or spottiness because of too much fluoride”
Another case of, “we’re from the gov’t & we’re here to help you”
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This is a good move.
Long, long ago I grew up in a town which got its water from deep wells. The water was loaded with fluoride, so much so that it affected the taste very adversely. And the fluoride mottled kids’ teeth with an unsightly brown stain.
Guess we should have had no caries at all.
We’ve come full circle - from whackjob Birchers in the ‘50’s freaking out over fluoride, to whackjob Obamaites today doing the same.
Tell us about areas that DON'T have flouride in their tap water.
Does bottled water have Flouride??
Another of those "opposites"...like don't go out in the sun because you will get skin cancer...and you will ONLY have a vitamin deficiency which might cripple you....
I’ve never lived anywhere with flouridated water and I have a couple of spots on my teeth. Its apparently no big deal since I have particularly good teeth anyway.
Oh, man, that makes me laugh!
Read the back label of fluoridated toothpaste - harmful - contact poison control.
50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation
http://theintelhub.com/2010/09/04/50-reasons-to-oppose-fluoridation/
http://www.fluoridealert.org/50-reasons.pdf
ADA study confirms dangers of fluoridated water, especially for babies
http://www.naturalnews.com/030123_fluoride_babies.html
Thyroid-damaging fluoride may also be harmful to teeth
http://theintelhub.com/2010/10/28/thyroid-damaging-fluoride-may-also-be-harmful-to-teeth/
Fluoridation, Mandrake. That’s how your hard-core commie operates.
As stated earlier, flouride is a poison. There is a reason you spit out your toothpaste instead of swallowing it after you’re done.
I have well water and am very glad for it.
sapping and impurifying precious bodily fluids since the end of WW2
I remember the anti-flouride zealots from the sixties who dominated the local call-in radio show in my hometown. It seemed they were allied with chiropractors who received bad publicity for their efforts. Unfortunately, the anti-flouride people used some dishonest tactics like using photos of flouride-mottled teeth that came from naturally flouridated water. The zealots were defeated, the flouride was added to the water supply, and I haven’t heard a word about flouridated water until this article. If millions of people’s teeth were being mottled by artificially, flouridated water, I think we’d have heard a lot more about it in the last fifty years.
I remember the anti-flouride zealots from the sixties who dominated the local call-in radio show in my hometown. It seemed they were allied with chiropractors who received bad publicity for their efforts. Unfortunately, the anti-flouride people used some dishonest tactics like using photos of flouride-mottled teeth that came from naturally flouridated water. The zealots were defeated, the flouride was added to the water supply, and I haven’t heard a word about flouridated water until this article. If millions of people’s teeth were being mottled by artificially, flouridated water, I think we’d have heard a lot more about it in the last fifty years.
You would have heard more.
The reason we haven’t, and are now, is because gov’t wants to trim budgets. Adding less to the water costs less, so insto-zippo a gov’t study says too much is being added.
If there was a RECENT increase in the amount of Fl being added, the thing to do would be to cut back to the prior level, yes?
So instead of cutting where they should, gov’t wants to cut where it should not.
It’s also very deadly for the aged. A hip break in someone over 60? Likely fluoridation was a contributing factor — fluorine makes the bones brittle.
Fluoridation is great for kids teeth, but unhealthy for adults. Kids can get the extra fluorine they need from fluorine washes, toothpaste, vitamin supplements.
Get rid of fluoridation.
- offshore oil drilling moratorium and rising oil prices,
- ethanol's proven dysfunctionality and its effect on
- rising food prices,
- persistent unemployment,
- imminent bankruptcy of California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois,etc.,
- the mass desertion of the Obama economic team,
- continued speculation/revalations about Obama's biological, sexual, academic, political, history as well as his citizenship.
is this popcorn fart of a story supposed to dislodge from even passing mention on the evening news?
Right. I’ve been off of flouride since ‘99 and no longer suffer severe back and hip pain. I had skeletal flourosis and the pain and migranes were excruciating. One jug of reverse osmosis drinking water and the headaches were gone and back pain diminished. It supposedly takes two years to leech it out of the bones and the reduction in joint pain pretty much folled that timeline.
I still get a chuckle from the FR ‘good-govt’ types who ridicule anyone who opposes the govt-mandated poisoning of water supplies with a toxic chemical the Germans list as more toxic than lead.
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