General Jack D. Ripper was RIGHT!
Posted on 02/15/2006 3:39:40 PM PST by nyscof
California Cavity-Epidemic Study Reveals Fluoridation is Ineffective
New York – February 14 -- Fluoridated California communities have huge cavity rates and large dentist-neglected populations, according to a recent California study,1 reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation (NYSCOF).
Although dentistry promises steep cavity reductions with fluoride-laced water supplies, that’s not happening in California which is in the midst of a cavity epidemic.2
For example: fluoridated Long Beach children have more cavities (75%) 3 than California state (71%) despite a state-wide fluoridation rate about one-fourth that of Long Beach. California is 27% fluoridated.
Los Angeles County is 44% fluoridated,4 yet 75% have tooth decay. 5 Santa Clara County, where several cities fluoridate,6 has a 72% cavity rate.7 Humboldt County is 35% fluoridated8 yet may have a higher cavity rate than California as a whole.9 Despite five fluoridated districts,6 Alameda County had double the statewide number of students needing urgent dental care.10 California is 27% fluoridated.
In contrast, NON-fluoridated Nassau County, New York, has a 50% cavity rate.11
Nationally 50% of six- to 8-year-olds have cavities.12 Fluoride is delivered to 2/3 of Americans via public water supplies and virtually 100% via the food supply
The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) predicted that California preschoolers’ poor nutrition, soda drinking and poor dental care would lead to more tooth decay.13
“Cavity rates correlate with poor diet and lack of dental care - two symptoms of poverty - not fluoride intake,” says Paul Beeber, President NYSCOF. “Fluoridation proponents are unjustifiably using the California study to promote fluoridation, when, in fact, it proves fluoridation’s ineffectiveness,” says Beeber.
Calcium, magnesium, vitamins A, C, D and other nutrients, not fluoride, are required to build and maintain healthy teeth. Many California preschoolers lack these nutrients because they do not consume recommended amounts of fruit, vegetables and milk while drinking too much soda.13
With free and accessible dental care, military personnel’s dental health exceeds their civilian counterparts, reports the U.S. Surgeon General.14
Forty-percent of California’s uninsured schoolchildren have untreated decay.1 Few California dentists accept Medicaid patients.15 Yet, dental groups oppose allowing trained dental therapists to mitigate the oral health epidemic.(16a, b)
Many fluoridated communities experience cavity crises in the U.S.17 Children need dentists, not fluoridation.18
“With soda such an obvious and preventable cause of tooth decay, we question why the American Association of Pediatric Dentists accepted a $1 million grant from Coca-Cola,”19 says Beeber.
Contact: Paul Beeber, President
New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc
PO Box 263
Old Bethpage, NY 11804 nyscof@aol.com
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof
http://www.FluorideAction.Net
SOURCE: NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation
References:
1) 2006 Oral Health Needs Assessment of Children, California Dental Health Foundation http://www.dentalhealthfoundation.org/topics/public/index.shtml 2) Childhood dental problems epidemic, Study finds 71% of state's 3rd-graders have tooth decay, San Francisco Chronicle, by Janine DeFao 02/06/06 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/06/BAGESH3C6S1.DTL
3) Dental disease sinks teeth into kids, by Kevin Butler, Press-Telegram, 2/6/06
http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_3479344
4) “Your Health,” Los Angeles County Department of Health Services – Public Health Volume III; Number 2; Winter 2000
5) 2006 Oral Health Needs Assessment of Children, California Dental Health Foundation page Table 2 (Region 3)
http://www.dentalhealthfoundation.org/topics/public/index.shtml
6) Average Fluoride Levels of Public Water Systems in California Implementing Water Fluoridation
http://www.dhs.ca.gov/ps/ddwem/Fluoridation/Fluoridetable2002.PDF
7) “Oral Health Status of Children in Santa Clara County,” Results of the Health Trust 2001 Needs Assessment, December 2001,
http://www.healthtrust.org/pubs/OralHealthStatusofChildreninSantaClaraCounty.PDF
8) “Crisis with our Children,” Executive Summary, Humboldt County Children’s Oral Health Report, July 2001
www.co.humboldt.ca.us/health/pdf/exec_sum.pdf
9) “Humboldt sees high dental disease rates among children,” by Sara Watson Arthurs, The Times-Standard, 02/07/2006
http://www.co.humboldt.ca.us/health/pdf/exec_sum.pdf
10) Dental decay afflicts quarter of state's kids, By Sandy Kleffman, Contra Costa Times, 02/06/2006 http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/13803140.htm
11) Nassau County Community Health Assessment 2005-2010
http://www.nassaucountyny.gov/agencies/Health/Docs/PDF/2005-2010_CHA.pdf (page
12) U.S. Centers for Disease Control Oral Health At a Glance http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/publications/aag/oh.htm
13) The Health of Young Children in California: Findings from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey. Los Angeles and Sacramento: UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and First 5 California, July 2003.
http://www.healthpolicy.ucla.edu/pubs/publication.asp?pubID=71
14) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General. 2000 (page 87)
15) Distribution of Medicaid Dental Services in California.
A paper by the Center for California Health Workforce Studies
at the UCSF Center for the Health Professions, December 2000
http://www.futurehealth.ucsf.edu/pdf_files/Medicaid%20Dental%20Report.PDF
16a) “American Dental Association Files Suit Over Unlicensed Dental Therapists Providing Care In Rural Areas, NPR Reports,” Feb 12, 2005 http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=37250&nfid=rssfeeds
b) “State board acts for California dentists, not public,” Sacramento Bee editorial 2/7/06http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=ED-DENTISTS-02-07-06
17) http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof2/_pgg6.php3
18) http://www.orgsites.com/ny/newyorkstatecoalitionopposedtofluoridation/_pgg5.php3
19) Pediatric Dentists Accused of Selling Out to Coke. CSPI [Center for Science in the Public Interest] Urges AAPD to Put Kids' Teeth Ahead of Coke's Money. March 2003 http://www.cspinet.org/new/200303041.html
http://groups.google.com/group/Fluoridation-News-Releases
It destroys your precious fluids.
Perhaps it would be better to give out free toothbrushes, toothpaste, and dental floss.
General Jack D. Ripper was RIGHT!
Let me be the first to say that it is a plot to steal our vital bodily fluids. Co. Jack Ripper told me so.
...or FEMA could give out credit cards to buy dental care products.
Great gif.
Does anyone have PJ O'Rourke's flowchart on how fluoridation makes you a Communist as graphic? :-)
Comparing Long Beach, California, an inner city enviornment, to Nassau County, NY, on wealthy, suburban Long Island, is kind of silly. Of course Long Beach is going to have more health problems of all kinds, including tooth decay. And that's regardless of whether you fluoridate.
*cuckoo clock sound*
No one drinks the water. They drink bottled water.
Don't let them pollute your precious bodily fluids!!!!
Wow! This guy is a beeber!! How cool is that?
It's the same crowd who are "dentist-neglected", cavity-filled people also tend to be the ones who guzzle sugary sodas all day, and rarely drink water, I don't see how any possible inference about the effectiveness of fluoridation can be drawn from their high cavity rate. Nobody ever said fluoridated water would help if you don't drink it. Showering in it just doesn't do the trick. Personally, I had tons of cavities when I was growing up -- a lot more than most of my American peers, and I lived most of the time in countries that did not have fluoridated water.
No, actually most of them drink sugary sodas.
These are also nice confounds, making the study somewhat unreliable for determining the efficacy of fluoridation.
I meant when they drink water, they drink bottled.
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