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USA - Tap Water Is Wise Choice

Tap Water Is Wise Choice
February 26, 2008
As a constituent of state Rep. Beth Bye, I support her efforts to stop the state's practice of purchasing bottled water at taxpayer expense, and to encourage state employees to drink tap water instead [Other Opinion, Feb. 25, "State Must Get Off the Bottle"]. This makes a great deal of sense from both financial and environmental standpoints.
As a dentist, I must point out that for the citizens of Connecticut, and especially its children, drinking tap water also has an added health benefit. Most local water supplies are treated to contain fluoride, which can help to reduce the incidence of dental decay in children by up to 60 percent.
The rate of dental decay in young children has recently increased for the first time in 40 years, and the American Dental Association suspects that some of this increase may be due to children drinking more (unfluoridated) bottled water and less fluoridated tap water.

I applaud Ms. Bye for her stance on tap vs. bottled water, and I urge the people of our state to follow her lead.
Carolyn J. Malon
West Hartford
The writer is president of the Hartford Dental Society.
Comments:

I invite Ms. Malon and Ms. Bye to come to my house and drink my tap water any day. It stinks of chlorination and clogs up my small appliances and shower heads. No thank you Ms. Malon and Ms. Bye...I won't be drinking the tap water at my house any time soon. My guess would be that bottled water is being supplied for a reason... probably because the tap water STINKS and tastes awful!!

nyscof

Tuesday

There is no evidence that the rise in tooth decay is due to drinking non-fluoridated water.There is loads of data to show that soda drinking children have rotten teeth. Most soda is made with fluoridation water.And the Centers for Disease Control actually report that US children are fluoride OVER-exposed and it's ruining their teeth with dental fluorosis (white spotted, yellow or brown teeth)So officials make you pay to have fluoride added to water supplies, not to purify it, but to medicate you ostensibly against tooth decay and then THEY drink bottled.It's time to rebel and get that fluoride out of the water once and for all. Join the national movement to do just thatat http://www.FluorideAction.Net Dental examinations of 4800 South Australianten- to fifteen-year-olds' permanent teeth reveal unexpected results -similar cavity rates whether they drink fluoridated water or not,reports Armfield and Spencer in the August 2004 "Community Dentistryand Oral Epidemiology"Even when fluoridated water is the most consumeditem, cavities are extensive when diets are poor, according to CariesResearch.("Dietary Patterns Related to Caries in a Low-Income AdultPopulation, Burt, et al., Caries Research 2006:40:473-480 )"While bottled water users had significantly lower fluoride intakes, this study found no conclusive evidence of an association with increased caries.," reports Levy et at in the Journal of Public Health Dentistry Summer 2007

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