Posted on 10/05/2024 10:35:53 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
The dental health benefits of adding fluoride to drinking water may be smaller now than before fluoride toothpaste was widely available, an updated Cochrane review has found.
The team of researchers reviewed the evidence from 157 studies which compared communities that had fluoride added to their water supplies with communities that had no additional fluoride in their water.
They found that the benefit of fluoridation has declined since the 1970s, when fluoride toothpaste became more widely available.
"Most of the studies on water fluoridation are over 50 years old, before the availability of fluoride toothpaste. Contemporary studies give us a more relevant picture of what the benefits are now."
Results from studies conducted after 1975 suggest that the initiation of water fluoridation schemes may lead to slightly less tooth decay in children's baby teeth. Analysis of these studies, covering a total of 2,908 children in the UK and Australia, estimates that fluoridation may lead to an average of 0.24 fewer decayed baby teeth per child.
However, the estimate of effect comes with uncertainty, meaning it's possible that the more recent schemes have no benefit. By comparison, an analysis of studies with 5,708 children conducted in 1975 or earlier estimated that fluoridation reduced the number of decayed baby teeth, on average by 2.1 per child.
The same contemporary studies (conducted after 1975) also looked at the number of children with no decay in their baby teeth. The analysis found that fluoridation may increase the number of children with no tooth decay by 3 percentage points, again with the possibility of no benefit.
"While water fluoridation can lead to small improvements in oral health, it does not address the underlying issues such as high sugar consumption and inadequate oral health behaviors," says Janet Clarkson.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
Honestly, drinking tea or using fluoride toothpaste seems adequate, and municipal water “supplementation” is not needed, and may introduce harm, as it seems to me.
About a week ago I read that some town or city had prevailed in it’s litigation to stop the fluoridation of the water supply. The ruling found that fluoridation may in fact harm children’s IQ.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/court-ruling-fluoride-levels-pose-114500067.html
My sister does not like fluoride and will not go to the dentist. She also says the gov’t is creating chemtrails and her plants and trees are dying.
She also has squirrels as pets... Yep, she is nuts.
Why the sudden news media attack on water fluoridation?
Class action lawsuits must be just around the corner.
The fluoride in the tap water you drink actually becomes part of your tooth structure, and it is in your saliva 24-7.
Tooth paste fluoride is a helpful external application, but just once or twice a day, and usually for less than five total minutes.
Reduces IQ levels, so not worth it at all. No need to swallow it, and fluoride toothpaste has much higher amounts, applied directly to the problem.
I grew up in San Antonio. Born in the 50s and eventually left there in 1979 for other parts of Texas due to my career.
SA got it’s drinking water from the Edwards Aquifer (still do) & at the time SA was the largest city that did not fluoridate their water.
I recall there was this push to ‘catch up’ with the other cities and fluoridate their water. I dont know what the status is now.
I’m happy that I wasnt fluoridated.
What might have changed?
Certainly not the chemistry of fluoride incorporation into the crystalline structure of teeth replacing hydroxyl groups thereby conferring resistance to organic acid dissolution.
Perhaps children are drinking less fluoridated tap water and more un-fluoridated bottled water?
Yep, she is nuts.
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On the other hand, maybe she is the smart one and on to something.....
Just raising it as a question since this seems to be the most important issue with this and someone here smarter than me may know. Let’s assume that fluoridation does some good even as it is acknowledged that it does some harm....is there a difference in the benefit if the fluoride is taken by drinking water or just rinsing with it? Does that mean that putting it in toothpaste has all the benefits and none of the downside?
I wonder if this is an underlying reason why there is so much bottled water sold.....if people are convinced that it really is pure and there is no fluoride in it.
For the record, I’ve almost always lived at a place with a well....dentist is always amazed at how good my teeth are...
They are trying to eliminate our “Purity of Essence”, or OPE, as General Ripper pointed out...
Read the labels: "Purified" water is filtered, allegedly RO filtered, but no filter - RO or otherwise - removes all fluoride.
At the source below:
Fluoride is an acute toxin, with a rating slightly higher than lead. It is, in fact, one of the most bone-seeking elements known to human beings. Excess fluoride causes several diseases, such as osteoporosis, arthritis, brittle bones, cancer, infertility in women, brain damage, Alzheimer's disease, and thyroid disorders. A worrying scenario is daily ingestion of just 2 mg of fluoride could result in crippling skeletal fluorosis after 40 years. Most of the people affected by high fluoride concentration in groundwater live in tropical countries where the per capita consumption of water is more because of the prevailing climate.and
Despite the profusion of rhetoric to the contrary, dental caries is a critical concern even today and continues to plague majority of the world's population with giant unmet treatment needs.[41] Fluoride is the pivot of caries prevention and a major breakthrough in the history of dentistry. A dogma had existed for many decades that fluoride has to be ingested and acts pre-eruptive. Current evidence clearly suggests that the mechanism of action of fluoride is mainly topical and post-eruptive.[42,43,44,45,46] Fluoride, as it is rightly said, is a double-edged sword. Since topical benefits of fluoride are as good as systemic but the risks are maximal on ingestion, the ideal recommendation would be to limit fluoride to dentifrices and mouthwashes. Adopting the precautionary principle categorizes fluoridation of community drinking water supply as an unreasonable risk. On the international front, most of the west European countries have rejected water fluoridation including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. The only three western European countries which still practice water fluoridation are Ireland (100%), Spain (10%), and the United Kingdom (11%). In countries like India, the need of the hour is DE-fluoridation of community water supplies and should be considered by the government as an effective means to reduce fluoride toxicity in our country. Thus, even for the usage of preventive topical and systemic fluoride, the benefits and the risks must be thoroughly weighed.The Untold Story of Fluoridation: Revisiting the Changing Perspectives
The ADA recognizes the use of fluoride and community water fluoridation as safe and effective in preventing tooth decay for both children and adults.ADA
They have gaslighted the population into believing that fluoride is safe.
Safe & Effective
Sound familiar???
Clarity: Purified water is filtered municipal tap water.
Think about it.
How To Remove Fluoride From Drinking Water
Does reverse osmosis remove fluoride? Yes, a reverse osmosis system is a simple solution for removing fluoride from drinking water. A Reverse Osmosis (RO) system can remove 85-92%* of fluoride in your water.
Essentially, reverse osmosis technology uses household water pressure to push tap water through the filtration process. Water passes through a semipermeable membrane and additional filters like carbon or sediment filters. Many RO units include a 4-stage process to ensure the best water quality. What Filter Systems Remove Fluoride From Water?
Fluoride and other contaminants can be removed by reverse osmosis.
Sulfates
Asbestos
Chlorine
Detergents
Cadmium, and many other metals
Lead
Complete list of contaminants RO can remove
https://www.paragonwater.com/does-reverse-osmosis-remove-fluoride/
>>My sister does not like fluoride and will not go to the dentist. She also says the gov’t is creating chemtrails and her plants and trees are dying.
She also has squirrels as pets... Yep, she is nuts.
My plants do much better with rain water. If you must water with tap, let it sit for a few days to allow some of the chemicals to evaporate.
Not only that, but we’ve overfluoridated. It’s in toothpaste, in the water, in many other things. People ar egetting fluoridosis.
Fluoride is industrial waste.
More liberalsism inflicting harm on people.
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