Looks like almost half the people have bought into the Fluoride myth (generally based on the mis-relating different types of fluoride, one toxic (sodium fluoride), one isn’t (calcium fluoride)) Calcium fluoride is added to water and is safe, sodium fluoride is what people refer to when mentioning the toxic nature of fluoride.
According to Wikipedia, calcium fluoride is insoluble. It also says that sodium fluoride used to be the compound added to water, but has been replaced:
"NaF was once used to fluoridate drinking water but its use has been displaced by hexafluorosilicic acid (H2SiF6) or its sodium salt (Na2SiF6)."
I don’t know which one they put in the water, but toothpaste contains sodium flouride.
We have whole house reverse osmosis, so I don’t particularly care what they put in the water.
Sodium Monoflourophosphate is not a problem. THe benefits far outweigh any potential risks
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/fluoridated-water
The possible relationship between fluoridated water and cancer has been debated at length. The debate resurfaced in 1990 when a study by the National Toxicology Program, part of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, showed an increased number of osteosarcomas (bone tumors) in male rats given water high in fluoride for 2 years (3). However, other studies in humans and in animals have not shown an association between fluoridated water and cancer (4).
In a February 1991 Public Health Service (PHS) report, the agency said it found no evidence of an association between fluoride and cancer in humans. The report, based on a review of more than 50 human epidemiological (population) studies produced over the past 40 years, concluded that optimal fluoridation of drinking water “does not pose a detectable cancer risk to humans” as evidenced by extensive human epidemiological data reported to date (4).
In one of the studies reviewed for the PHS report, scientists at the National Cancer Institute evaluated the relationship between the fluoridation of drinking water and the number of deaths due to cancer in the United States during a 36-year period, and the relationship between water fluoridation and number of new cases of cancer during a 15-year period. After examining more than 2.2 million cancer death records and 125,000 cancer case records in counties using fluoridated water, the researchers found no indication of increased cancer risk associated with fluoridated drinking water (5).
In 1993, the Subcommittee on Health Effects of Ingested Fluoride of the National Research Council, part of the National Academy of Sciences, conducted an extensive literature review concerning the association between fluoridated drinking water and increased cancer risk. The review included data from more than 50 human epidemiological studies and six animal studies. The Subcommittee concluded that none of the data demonstrated an association between fluoridated drinking water and cancer (5). A 1999 report by the CDC supported these findings. The report concluded that studies to date have produced “no credible evidence” of an association between fluoridated drinking water and an increased risk for cancer (2).
Don’t confuse them with the facts.. come on, you’ll end their conspiracy.
Talk to any detist that practices in an area where floride is not added to the water supply, and you’ll know the truth quickly.
When we moved to Cali for a year, and my son, wife and I who have lived our entire lives until then in with floridated water, went to the dentist there, he was fully amazed at the condition of our teeth, compared to most people he saw, and immediately realized we were not born or raised in that area.
When I asked him why they don’t floridate the water there, he said basically fear mongering has kept it from being done. I’d never in my life seen a child with cavities in their baby teeth before moving there... He said basically he makes more money living there fixing issues that should not even be if they would just floridate the water.
And no, having a floride treatment every 6 or 12 months by a dentist is not the same, its better than nothing, but its not the same.
I can’t believe the lies and conspiracy nonsense are still being perpetuated on this topic.
And for the record... cancer rates were far higher per 1000 in the area of Cali I lived than they were where I was from, so was autism. The floridated water causing cancer is a complete myth and hoax, and it needs to die.