FLUORIDE ‘CAUSES CANCER’
13/6/2005
Irish Dentists Opposing Fluoridation (IDOF), a group of over 100 dentists, is demanding an immediate stop to the dosing of all public water supplies with chemical fluoride after a study conducted by the Harvard School of Dental Health found an increased cancer risk in children.[1] The research has already led to the Environmental Working Group, a Washington research organisation, calling for the United States government to list fluoride as a carcinogen.[2] In Ireland all public water supplies have been fluoridated by law since the 1960s and we remain one of the few countries in Europe still adding this chemical to supposedly benefit our teeth.
The disturbing American research shows that boys drinking fluoridated water from the age of five to ten will experience a greater risk of osteosarcoma – bone cancer – when they are older.[3] Another study comparing figures between the Republic of Ireland (fluoridated) and Northern Ireland (unfluoridated) also found a 40% rise in bone cancer levels.[4] In 1996, Northern Ireland refused to begin dosing its drinking water with chemical fluoride when 25 out of 26 councils voted against water fluoridation because of health and safety concerns.
Although osteosarcoma is considered a rare childhood cancer it is one of the most prevalent in young males aged 9-20 and is described by the Boston researcher as a “highly lethal malignant tumour” with an average survival rate of only three years. Most sufferers have limbs amputated.
The fluoride cancer risk reported in yesterday’s Observer confirms growing health concerns about the whole fluoridation process. Last month, IDOF slammed Mary Harney for doing nothing to combat the near epidemic levels of fluoride tooth damage – dental fluorosis – which has seen a seven fold increase in the last twenty years. IDOF also raised the issue of further health damage. Since half of all the fluoride swallowed is stored in the body in hard tissues such as teeth and bones there has always been the question; if fluoride is damaging teeth what is it doing to our bones?
Dr. Don Mac Auley, Chairman of IDOF, commented, “Irish Dentists are seeing fluoride tooth damage every day in our dental practices and as the teeth are the windows of the skeleton we question what this chemical is doing to our patients’ bones. Now we read more evidence that fluoride can cause bone cancer while our health minister plays a delaying game of forums and expert groups. The Forum on Fluoridation concluded three years ago that fluoride levels should be turned down but nothing happened. IDOF no longer wants the fluoride taps turned down we want them turned off. After all, how many cavities do you have to save to justify the death of one young man from osteosarcoma?
Dr. Don Mac Auley. Surgery 046 9021203. Home 046 9054340.
DENTISTS SLAM HARNEY
Irish Dentists Opposing Fluoridation (IDOF), a group of over 100 dentists, is demanding an immediate stop to the dosing of all public water supplies with chemical fluoride after a study conducted by the Harvard School of Dental Health found an increased cancer risk in children.[1] The research has already led to the Environmental Working Group, a Washington research organisation, calling for the United States government to list fluoride as a carcinogen.[2] In Ireland all public water supplies have been fluoridated by law since the 1960s and we remain one of the few countries in Europe still adding this chemical to supposedly benefit our teeth.
The disturbing American research shows that boys drinking fluoridated water from the age of five to ten will experience a greater risk of osteosarcoma – bone cancer – when they are older.[3] Another study comparing figures between the Republic of Ireland (fluoridated) and Northern Ireland (unfluoridated) also found a 40% rise in bone cancer levels.[4] In 1996, Northern Ireland refused to begin dosing its drinking water with chemical fluoride when 25 out of 26 councils voted against water fluoridation because of health and safety concerns.
Although osteosarcoma is considered a rare childhood cancer it is one of the most prevalent in young males aged 9-20 and is described by the Boston researcher as a “highly lethal malignant tumour” with an average survival rate of only three years. Most sufferers have limbs amputated.
The fluoride cancer risk reported in yesterday’s Observer confirms growing health concerns about the whole fluoridation process. Last month, IDOF slammed Mary Harney for doing nothing to combat the near epidemic levels of fluoride tooth damage – dental fluorosis – which has seen a seven fold increase in the last twenty years. IDOF also raised the issue of further health damage. Since half of all the fluoride swallowed is stored in the body in hard tissues such as teeth and bones there has always been the question; if fluoride is damaging teeth what is it doing to our bones?
Dr. Don Mac Auley, Chairman of IDOF, commented, “Irish Dentists are seeing fluoride tooth damage every day in our dental practices and as the teeth are the windows of the skeleton we question what this chemical is doing to our patients’ bones. Now we read more evidence that fluoride can cause bone cancer while our health minister plays a delaying game of forums and expert groups. The Forum on Fluoridation concluded three years ago that fluoride levels should be turned down but nothing happened. IDOF no longer wants the fluoride taps turned down we want them turned off. After all, how many cavities do you have to save to justify the death of one young man from osteosarcoma?
Dr. Don Mac Auley. Surgery 046 9021203. Home 046 9054340.
DENTISTS SLAM HARNEY
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