Letter: Decades of research supports the use of fluoridated water
Letter: Decades of research supports the use of fluoridated water
Monday, January 7, 2008
If fluoridation opponents, and those who are undecided, don’t want to take the word of Martin County dentists — who have devoted their professional lives to the improvement of oral health — read what others have said.
Dr. C. Everett Koop, the famous former surgeon general, has said of fluoridation, “it is the single most important commitment that a community can make for the oral health of its citizens.”
The Centers for Disease Control has proclaimed that fluoridation has taken its place among the top 10 public health achievements of the 20th century, along with polio vaccination, milk pasteurization and smallpox inoculations. Further, the CDC also says about opponents, “we have heard all their arguments before. They are masters of communication with the goal of planting doubts in your mind, not improving public understanding.”
I practiced in St. Albans, Vt., for 17 years without fluoridation and 18 years with it. The results were dramatic. It was not difficult to pick out which kids lived in the city and which came from parts of the town with well water. I’m sure that dentists treating the nearly 200 million people in the United States have seen the same dramatic results.
If you believe any of the anti-fluoride propaganda, doesn’t it seem weird that the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association, along with more than 100 national and international organizations, endorse water fluoridation for preventing dental decay? What is it the these “antis” think they know that millions and millions of people around the world — nearly half a billion in all who are enjoying the benefits of fluoridation — don’t know? What is it they know that 60 to 80 years of research and experience hasn’t discovered?
The answer should be very obvious!
Robert L. Barker Jr. D.D.S.
Port St. Lucie
Monday, January 7, 2008
If fluoridation opponents, and those who are undecided, don’t want to take the word of Martin County dentists — who have devoted their professional lives to the improvement of oral health — read what others have said.
Dr. C. Everett Koop, the famous former surgeon general, has said of fluoridation, “it is the single most important commitment that a community can make for the oral health of its citizens.”
The Centers for Disease Control has proclaimed that fluoridation has taken its place among the top 10 public health achievements of the 20th century, along with polio vaccination, milk pasteurization and smallpox inoculations. Further, the CDC also says about opponents, “we have heard all their arguments before. They are masters of communication with the goal of planting doubts in your mind, not improving public understanding.”
I practiced in St. Albans, Vt., for 17 years without fluoridation and 18 years with it. The results were dramatic. It was not difficult to pick out which kids lived in the city and which came from parts of the town with well water. I’m sure that dentists treating the nearly 200 million people in the United States have seen the same dramatic results.
If you believe any of the anti-fluoride propaganda, doesn’t it seem weird that the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association, along with more than 100 national and international organizations, endorse water fluoridation for preventing dental decay? What is it the these “antis” think they know that millions and millions of people around the world — nearly half a billion in all who are enjoying the benefits of fluoridation — don’t know? What is it they know that 60 to 80 years of research and experience hasn’t discovered?
The answer should be very obvious!
Robert L. Barker Jr. D.D.S.
Port St. Lucie
posted by Bill at
10:07 AM
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The US Centers for Disease control fraudulently uses data to support water fluoridation which in fact specifically does not
For example:
In this CDC website updated December 2007, http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/fact_she... CDC claims water fluoridation is safe and effective and as a reference for that claim lists "the University of York Center for Research Dissemination. "
However, the University of York Center for Research Dissemination (York Review) published in 2000 found the following:
-- We were unable to discover any reliable good-quality evidence in the fluoridation literature world-wide.
-- An association with water fluoride and other adverse effects such as cancer, bone fracture and Down's syndrome was not found. However, we felt that not enough was known because the quality of the evidence was poor. The evidence about reducing inequalities in dental health was of poor quality, contradictory and unreliable.
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Then this was re-iterated in the October 6, 2007 British Medical Journal which said about what the York Review researchers found:
Cavity rates declined equally in fluoridated and non-fluoridated European countries over three decades. “This trend has occurred regardless of the concentration of fluoride in water or the use of fluoridated salt,”
“Thus, evidence on the potential benefits and harms of adding fluoride to water is relatively poor,” the BMJ’s researchers write.
Sheldon, who was Chair of the York Review’s advisory committee, as well as co-author of the BMJ article, wrote in a different 2006 report that officials promoting fluoridation may have misrepresented the York Review findings to suit “prior beliefs and policy intent.”
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Clearly the CDC's oral health section are among those official fluoridation promoters who continue to use the York Review to suit their own agenda when the authors must repeatedly inform us that it's a lie to make such a claim.
This is why the CDC's oral health section must be put before a Congressional hearing under oath and be forced to testify about why they continue to distort the scientific literature concerning water fluoridation.
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