UK - Natural fluoride benefits
Natural fluoride benefits
Tristan Harris
11 April 2008
All water contains fluoride naturally. In many places – Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, and Hartlepool in north-east England, for example – the natural level is already at the optimum of one part of fluoride per million parts water.
Studies show, where fluoride occurs at or near the optimum level, there is a significant reduction in tooth decay. For children in particular, it means less toothache and fewer decayed teeth having to be filled or extracted. It also means there are many more children who never experience tooth decay at all.
Unfortunately, the natural level of fluoride in most of our region’s water is too low to offer protection against tooth decay. That is why many health authorities decided to supplement the natural fluoride through fluoridation schemes.
National surveys of children across Britain consistently show those living in West Midlands fluoridated areas enjoy some of the best dental health nationally, including those living in Bromsgrove and Redditch.
Careful health trends monitoring in comparable fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities has failed to identify any credible adverse health consequences, whether in areas with optimum natural fluoridation or in areas where it has been supplemented.
Both naturally-occurring and added fluoride are present in water as the simple fluoride ion - they are identical. Fluoridation is a carefully controlled process for replicating dental benefits nature itself provides randomly to people who happen to live in particular parts of the UK and other countries.
Birmingham’s fluoridation scheme has been running for over 40 years and has seen a substantial improvement in the dental health of children in the city. Bromsgrove has had similar benefits for about 35 years. We are proud of this public health achievement.
John Langford, Consultant in Dental Public Health, West Midlands Strategic Health Authority
Alan McMichael, Consultant in Dental Public Health, Worcestershire Primary Care Trust
No mention of the obesity problem in the area or the extra funding for dental care as against other areas without fluoridation. No mention that natural fluoride is calcium fluoride not contaminated fluorosiliac acid. Careful monitoring what a joke I saw the letter sent out to consultants asking if they were aware of any harm done through fluoride and of those who bothered to reply said no. Very scientific.!
Tristan Harris
11 April 2008
All water contains fluoride naturally. In many places – Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, and Hartlepool in north-east England, for example – the natural level is already at the optimum of one part of fluoride per million parts water.
Studies show, where fluoride occurs at or near the optimum level, there is a significant reduction in tooth decay. For children in particular, it means less toothache and fewer decayed teeth having to be filled or extracted. It also means there are many more children who never experience tooth decay at all.
Unfortunately, the natural level of fluoride in most of our region’s water is too low to offer protection against tooth decay. That is why many health authorities decided to supplement the natural fluoride through fluoridation schemes.
National surveys of children across Britain consistently show those living in West Midlands fluoridated areas enjoy some of the best dental health nationally, including those living in Bromsgrove and Redditch.
Careful health trends monitoring in comparable fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities has failed to identify any credible adverse health consequences, whether in areas with optimum natural fluoridation or in areas where it has been supplemented.
Both naturally-occurring and added fluoride are present in water as the simple fluoride ion - they are identical. Fluoridation is a carefully controlled process for replicating dental benefits nature itself provides randomly to people who happen to live in particular parts of the UK and other countries.
Birmingham’s fluoridation scheme has been running for over 40 years and has seen a substantial improvement in the dental health of children in the city. Bromsgrove has had similar benefits for about 35 years. We are proud of this public health achievement.
John Langford, Consultant in Dental Public Health, West Midlands Strategic Health Authority
Alan McMichael, Consultant in Dental Public Health, Worcestershire Primary Care Trust
No mention of the obesity problem in the area or the extra funding for dental care as against other areas without fluoridation. No mention that natural fluoride is calcium fluoride not contaminated fluorosiliac acid. Careful monitoring what a joke I saw the letter sent out to consultants asking if they were aware of any harm done through fluoride and of those who bothered to reply said no. Very scientific.!
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