Posted on 02/28/2011 6:18:08 PM PST by DBCJR
For decades, fluoride has been marketed and heralded as essential for good dental hygiene and used in most toothpastes and mouthwashes. In addition, parents have been routinely encouraged to give their kids cavity-fighting fluoride treatments when they visit the dentist. ...
But that was then and this is now. In a surprising reversal, last month EPA’s announced that it intends to lower the maximum amount of fluoride in drinking water because of growing evidence supporting the chemical’s possible deleterious effects to children’s health.
In 2006, the National Academy of Sciences report that found dental fluorosis – caused by too much fluoride – capable of putting children at risk of developing other dental problems including the breakdown of tooth enamel, discoloration and pitting. January’s EPA recommendation reversal was made following a revised risk assessment study that found 2 out of 5 adolescents had tooth streaking or spottiness and some pitting as a result of excessive fluoride. In addition, other studies have found excessive ingestion of fluoride capable of increasing the risk of brittle bones leading to fractures and debilitating bone abnormalities.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Fluoride is an effective mild disinfectant against tooth decay bacteria. Getting it in tap water can be a problem because there is no easy way to tailor the dose. Maybe West Texans don’t care about mottled bones (nobody will see them until you’re dead), but mottled teeth can easily result from excess fluoride.
>> “The only way to remove excess fluoride from the body is with ample amounts of pure grain alcohol...works for me.” <<
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Yup! They remove the fluoride along with your rotted liver!
>> “You are absolutely sure that they are right on this and over 60 years of research by the American Dental Association is ALL WRONG!” <<
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The stuff used for the ADA studies was stannous fluoride, not the crap that they put in the water. Wake up!
Remember of course that the John Birch Society thought that fluoridating water supplies was a “communist plot”? Looks like they were right. Topical fluoride application makes sense. It makes no logical sense to fluoridate entire cities water supplies without knowing the long term effects.
It’s amazing how many “naturalists” there are on FR. Sad, really. Willing to buy anything from 19th-century snake-oil salesmen at their local “vitamin shop” or 3rd-century acupuncturist, and convinced that it works. Amazing how many so-called “natural” things are cures for EVERYthing. “Big Pharma” is just trying to bilk money from everyone, but not these “Big Organics/Naturals” - oh, no. They’re just trying to help people.
Canada sets limits on the amount of fluoride in the fish and water fowl for consumption.
There was a study a year or two ago that said that the military having all kids swish fluoride had actually destroyed lots of people’s teeth as they got older. Seems to have effected me at least somewhat.
I am using Dial soap, Dove or Kiss My face for brushing teeth
You are one very sick puppy!
Quackwatch does its own share of cherry-picking and scare-mongering.
All medical claims--traditional, holistic, alternative, nutrition-based--should be dispassionately evaluated. Do not confuse "no harm shown" with "safe". Do not confuse "no demonstrated effect" with "useless". And watch the statistics on relative risk or improvement when dealing with effects which affect a small population to begin with.
And follow the money: everyone wants to make money. But some people want to do it by being "consultants" or "experts" and others by providing a useful service, ameliorative, or solution to a problem.
Finally, remember that the AMA and the pharmaceuticals companies have lobbyists: and not all laws are really for "the public good".
Cheers!
“Amazing how many so-called “natural” things are cures for EVERYthing. “Big Pharma” is just trying to bilk money from everyone”
Pharma and Docs speak latin because if you knew what it was they were injecting you would think you were in China.
During heart surgery they prevent your blood from clotting with heparin and reverse it with protamine. Heparin is ground up cow lung and protamine is made from salmon sperm. What could be more “natural” or “organic” than that!
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Naturally occurring fluoride (calcium fluoride) is a totally different animal than man-made (sodium) fluoride - which is a toxic waste product from the manufacture of aluminum.
It's been great for the aluminum industry. Instead of expensive disposal of a toxic waste, they make money and we have been the toxic waste dumps for over 50 years.
All this has been known - but controlled but those with the big bucks.
My dentist if fantastic but I don’t think he would think much of that or he would have mentioned it. I have tried it anyway and it didn’t do much for me.
I don’t know about the article but I will try the “alternative” remedies mentioned by FReepes. As an herbalist I know how powerful they can be.
He's either blowing smoke up your - ear , or he's ignorant of how things enter our bodies.
Ever hear of 'sub-lingual' methods of absorbing things - like Vit B12 - that absorbs faster and more completely by being dissolved under the tongue than swallowed?
Many medicines, even nitroglycerin, is now administered through small patches on the body, absorbed through the skin.
How any thinking person could use fluoride toothpaste OR give it to their kids, is beyond my comprehension.
Ever read the warning required by the gov't on fluoride toothpaste tubes? It warns you that if you use even a pea size amount and swallow to call the poison control immediately. And then they make flavored toothpaste, like bubblegum and grape for kids.
WAKE UP AMERICA
I smell a lawsuit
Wait till whatever is left of 0bamaCare starts to kick in.
On the prowl myself for efficacious, inexpensive treatments to prevent advancing gingivitis and/or periodontal disease.
I'm no longer a young kitten. Meow.
Cheers!
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