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Saturday, August 05, 2006

Australia - fluoridated and kids teeth still rot.

Dentists shocked at rise in tooth decay in childrenDanielle CroninSaturday, 5 August 2006 THE YOUNGEST patients of the ACT's principal dentist, Chris Bill, have been 18-month-old babies with tooth decay.
Babies put to bed with a bottle and given a dummy covered in sweet stuff are at risk of dental problems.
Bill says tooth decay is not common among toddlers, "but it is quite tragic, really, when you see young children of that age with significant amounts of decay because often it's very difficult [or] obviously impossible to treat them in the dental chair," Bill says. "They need to go to hospital to have a general anaesthetic and in severe cases, they need to have teeth extracted at a very young age, which is obviously undesirable."
Bill has been a dentist for 26 years and has seen a significant improvement in Australian children's oral health, particularly a six-fold drop in dental disease.
But these advances are under threat because there has been a slight, noticeable increase in dental problems in the past few years.
To coincide with Dental Health Week, the Australian Dental Association is warning that the increasing consumption of soft drink and sports drinks are contributing to a marked decline in the dental health of teenagers.
The association's oral health committee chairman, Derek Lewis, says the popularity of acidic, sugary drinks is taking a toll on consumers' teeth.
A new study suggests that one in five teens living in Victoria drinks more than a litre of soft drink a day

1 Comments:

  • The York report, Dr Sushila's comments show that the use of fluoride as a preventative in tooth decay is seriously floored. Go back in to history and look at the work of Trendly Dean and his team, they were on the wrong track. look at what fluoride does,reduces enzymatic activity, may interfere with thyroid function, may cause hip fracture, can cause osteogenic sarcoma in young men. All this against the reported no more than 15% imprvement in decay rates suggested by the York report. In my book Toxic Bite we look further in to all of this.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11 August, 2006  

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