Fight against downunder
Fri, Sep 16, 2005
Fluoride sets off alarm bells
I RECENTLY received in the mail a booklet from the Department of Human Services via North East Water on the virtues of fluoride in our water.
This booklet let me know that fluoride helped with 45 per cent less decay in baby teeth, this leaves 55 per cent it didnt help, and in 12-year-olds 38 per cent of adult teeth had less decay, this leaves a total of 62 per cent, it appears that the odds are still against it as the help is still not in the majority.
The booklet admits young children can have too much fluoride and they should be discouraged from swallowing toothpaste. Children under two years old should not use toothpaste and between the ages of two and six should only use low fluoride toothpaste. It also advises the careful use of toothpaste and fluoride tablets even in areas without fluoridation. All these numbers only got my alarm bells ringing this appears to be a dangerous chemical and Im not convinced that it should be administered en masse. On page 13 of the booklet Prof John Harris of the University of Manchester stated “We should ask not are we entitled to impose fluoridation on unwilling people, but are the unwilling people entitled to impose the risks, damage and costs of failure to fluoridate on the community at large”.
What about my rights not to have fluoride, who will pay if I or any other member of the community has an allergic reaction to fluoride? If any one needs fluoride it can be prescribed for them after a proper medical check and be given free of charge but dont force me to take a medicine or chemical I dont need or want.
A. OGRADY,
Wodonga
Fluoride sets off alarm bells
I RECENTLY received in the mail a booklet from the Department of Human Services via North East Water on the virtues of fluoride in our water.
This booklet let me know that fluoride helped with 45 per cent less decay in baby teeth, this leaves 55 per cent it didnt help, and in 12-year-olds 38 per cent of adult teeth had less decay, this leaves a total of 62 per cent, it appears that the odds are still against it as the help is still not in the majority.
The booklet admits young children can have too much fluoride and they should be discouraged from swallowing toothpaste. Children under two years old should not use toothpaste and between the ages of two and six should only use low fluoride toothpaste. It also advises the careful use of toothpaste and fluoride tablets even in areas without fluoridation. All these numbers only got my alarm bells ringing this appears to be a dangerous chemical and Im not convinced that it should be administered en masse. On page 13 of the booklet Prof John Harris of the University of Manchester stated “We should ask not are we entitled to impose fluoridation on unwilling people, but are the unwilling people entitled to impose the risks, damage and costs of failure to fluoridate on the community at large”.
What about my rights not to have fluoride, who will pay if I or any other member of the community has an allergic reaction to fluoride? If any one needs fluoride it can be prescribed for them after a proper medical check and be given free of charge but dont force me to take a medicine or chemical I dont need or want.
A. OGRADY,
Wodonga
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