Posted on 06/04/2015 5:13:51 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Everyone read the link in 9YearLurker’s post. It will show you that the posted article is lying to you.
No. I am a Public Utilities Director who oversees several water systems.
Last month, the FDA lowered the recommended fluoride levels for drinking water. They did this due to side effects that had been denied for decades. Quackwatch is a quack itself.
Do you folks want to look like the British : )
Dr. Strangelove - Water and Commies (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J67wKhddWu4
General Jack D. Ripper: He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Well, no, I can’t say I have.
General Jack D. Ripper: Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.
This article was ridiculous when it first came and it still reflects old fashioned disproven ideas. Modern science proved that ingesting fluoride does not reduce tooth decay and is ineffective at reducing tooth decay.
Fluoride, like all drugs, affects different people in different ways. (See http://www.FluorideAction.Net/issues/health
Most accepted is dental fluorosis (discolored teeth) the rates of which gave grown over the years despite that the US is still facing cavity crises in all fluoridated cities and states. See http://www.FluorideNews.Blogsot.com
For example, up to 60% of US adolescents have dental fluorosis while 51% of them still have tooth decay despite 41% fitted with plastic coatings over their more decay-prone back teeth.
Unpublished data shows that number is even higher today.
Further, almost 100% of US adults have tooth decay, according to CDC statistics
In fluoridated Greeley, Colorado 60 to 70 percent of one dentist’s child patients need care that goes beyond checkups, such as fillings or other work, which he said is on par with the national average for lower-income communities, according to the Greeley Tribune. The reason is that most dentists won’t accept Medicaid patients.
instead,” says Beeber.
The Surgeon General’s 2000 report identified oral health as a “silent epidemic.” But, nothing changed despite dozens of reports, meetings, hearings, webinars, and conferences, many of which identified fluoride research needs that still haven’t been done. States hired fluoridation consultants, dental directors and conduct fluoridation spokesperson training.
“There has been no progress, really, in the national decay rates, especially in people who are living 100 percent below poverty,” according to that Greeley dentist.
According to the Indian Health Services (IHS) (April 2015), American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) preschoolers have the highest level of tooth decay of any population group in the US
IHS reports that “This disparity exists...Despite wide implementation of fluoridation, topical fluorides, dental sealants and oral health education,” For example, 3/4 of AI/AN five-year-olds have primary teeth cavities (44% untreated).
By comparison, the NON-fluoridated counties in New York State have much lower third-graders’ tooth decay rates shown in parentheses: Schuyler (29%), Tompkins (42%), Essex (50%), Montgomery (42%) , Putnam (39%), Rockland (47%) , Nassau (42%), Suffolk (49%),
About the Newburgh, NY, fluoridation experiment that began in 1945, it also was a failure but was declared a success only after five years - before the permanent teeth of children born into the experiment had erupted.
After ten years, children in fluoridated Newburgh had more bone defects, anemia and early puberty than non-fluoridated Kingston NY children, which acted as the control.
Fifty years after fluoridation began, children in Newburgh had more tooth decay and more fluorosis than never fluoridated Kingston NY
Fluoridation has failed. People need to lobby their legislators to stop wasting their money and endangering their health on this failed public health measure.
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