USA - Banning water fluoridation. An Opinion
Banning water fluoridation.
Fluoridation began with the belief that ingested fluoride incorporated into children's teeth to prevent tooth decay. Modern science disproved that theory and shows fluoride's beneficial effects occur topically. However, fluoride's adverse effects occur upon ingestion. While well intentioned at a time when vitamins and minerals were discovered to stop diseases, dentists thought fluoride was their magic bullet against cavities.
However, fluoride turns out to be neither a nutrient nor essential for healthy teeth. In fact, no fluoride deficiency state occurs in nature.
Now after 60 years of water fluoridation reaching two thirds of Americans on public water supplies and virtually 100% via the food supply, tooth decay is a national epidemic and fluoride overdose symptoms (white spotted, yellow or brown and sometimes pitted enamel) are a growing U.S. problem.
Incredibly, no pharmaceutical grade fluoride chemicals are used in fluoridating communities. Silicofluorides, an impure industrial waste product of the phosphate fertilizer industry is the chemical used by over 91% of US fluoridating communities.
What's worse is the statistics show that tooth decay and/or tooth loss is not any lower in the most highly fluoridated states compared to the less fluoridated states.
For example, Alabama is 82% fluoridated yet has one of the worst tooth loss rates in the U.S. (See: http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/nohss/ListV.asp?qkey=7&DataSet=2) Utah is only 2% fluoridated and has the lowest tooth loss rate.
Recently, the Centers for Disease Control joined the American Dental Association and the Food and Drug Administration in advising that no fluoridated water should be used in making infant formula to avoid dental fluorosis.
In March 2006 the National Research Council put out a report that shows that fluoride, even at the low levels, introduced into drinking water supplies, can have adverse health effects. And that's why I believe their ought to be a law to ban water fluoridation and allow individuals to choose or not choose fluoride based on individual need and monitored for side effects and overdose symptoms.
Fluoridation began with the belief that ingested fluoride incorporated into children's teeth to prevent tooth decay. Modern science disproved that theory and shows fluoride's beneficial effects occur topically. However, fluoride's adverse effects occur upon ingestion. While well intentioned at a time when vitamins and minerals were discovered to stop diseases, dentists thought fluoride was their magic bullet against cavities.
However, fluoride turns out to be neither a nutrient nor essential for healthy teeth. In fact, no fluoride deficiency state occurs in nature.
Now after 60 years of water fluoridation reaching two thirds of Americans on public water supplies and virtually 100% via the food supply, tooth decay is a national epidemic and fluoride overdose symptoms (white spotted, yellow or brown and sometimes pitted enamel) are a growing U.S. problem.
Incredibly, no pharmaceutical grade fluoride chemicals are used in fluoridating communities. Silicofluorides, an impure industrial waste product of the phosphate fertilizer industry is the chemical used by over 91% of US fluoridating communities.
What's worse is the statistics show that tooth decay and/or tooth loss is not any lower in the most highly fluoridated states compared to the less fluoridated states.
For example, Alabama is 82% fluoridated yet has one of the worst tooth loss rates in the U.S. (See: http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/nohss/ListV.asp?qkey=7&DataSet=2) Utah is only 2% fluoridated and has the lowest tooth loss rate.
Recently, the Centers for Disease Control joined the American Dental Association and the Food and Drug Administration in advising that no fluoridated water should be used in making infant formula to avoid dental fluorosis.
In March 2006 the National Research Council put out a report that shows that fluoride, even at the low levels, introduced into drinking water supplies, can have adverse health effects. And that's why I believe their ought to be a law to ban water fluoridation and allow individuals to choose or not choose fluoride based on individual need and monitored for side effects and overdose symptoms.
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