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Saturday, June 28, 2008

UK - Echo comment from Paul Connett

Posted by: Paul Connett, PhD, Canton, NY, USA on 3:35am today
In her article, “US city mirrors Hampshire's fluoride debate,” Lucy Clark points out that “Forty-six of the USA's largest cities” as well as “Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Dublin, Birmingham and Newcastle” fluoridate their water. If this list is given in order to encourage Southampton to follow suit, I would point out that the vast majority of cities worldwide do not fluoridate their water, and there is no scientific evidence that their teeth are any worse than the cities that do. These non-fluoridated cities include: Albany (NY), Amsterdam, Antwerp, Athens, Basel, Beijing, Belfast, Bergen, Berlin, Bern, Bologna, Bombay, Bonn, Bremen, Brescia, Brussels, Calcutta, Cambridge, Cape Town, Cardiff, Carlisle, Cologne, Copenhagen, Christchurch, Delhi, Durban, Dusseldorf, Edinburgh, Florence, Frankfurt, Geneva, Genova, Hamburg, Helsinki, Innsbruch, Johannesburg, Kyoto, London, Lucca, Luxembourg, Lyon, Madras, Malmo, Marseilles, Milan, Monaco, Montreal, Moscow, Munich, Naples, Nice, Oslo, Osaka, Oxford, Padua, Paris, Prague, Pretoria, Quebec City, Reykjavik, Rome, Rotterdam, Rouen, Salzburg, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Tallin, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Trieste, Turin, Udine, Utrecht, Vancouver, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw, Wurtemburg, Yokohama, Zagreb, and Zurich. I urge you to be very wary of following this bad American practice. In America, some of the worst tooth decay is occurring in cities which have been fluoridated for over 20 years. This is largely because America does a terrible job of getting dental care to families of low income. 80% of American dentists refuse to treat poor children on MedicAid. It is well established that there is a far greater relationship between poor dietary habits, and low income levels, than you will ever find with lack of ingested fluoride. In the US, and elsewhere, health authorities should find better ways of providing dental care for families of low income, as well as education for a better diet and dental habits, than wasting taxpayers dollars pursuing the myth of water fluoridation. Paul Connett, PhD, Executive Director, Fluoride Action Network 315-379-9200 http://www.FluorideA lert.org
In her article, “US city mirrors Hampshire's fluoride debate,” Lucy Clark points out that “Forty-six of the USA's largest cities” as well as “Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Dublin, Birmingham and Newcastle” fluoridate their water. If this list is given in order to encourage Southampton to follow suit, I would point out that the vast majority of cities worldwide do not fluoridate their water, and there is no scientific evidence that their teeth are any worse than the cities that do. These non-fluoridated cities include: Albany (NY), Amsterdam, Antwerp, Athens, Basel, Beijing, Belfast, Bergen, Berlin, Bern, Bologna, Bombay, Bonn, Bremen, Brescia, Brussels, Calcutta, Cambridge, Cape Town, Cardiff, Carlisle, Cologne, Copenhagen, Christchurch, Delhi, Durban, Dusseldorf, Edinburgh, Florence, Frankfurt, Geneva, Genova, Hamburg, Helsinki, Innsbruch, Johannesburg, Kyoto, London, Lucca, Luxembourg, Lyon, Madras, Malmo, Marseilles, Milan, Monaco, Montreal, Moscow, Munich, Naples, Nice, Oslo, Osaka, Oxford, Padua, Paris, Prague, Pretoria, Quebec City, Reykjavik, Rome, Rotterdam, Rouen, Salzburg, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Tallin, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Trieste, Turin, Udine, Utrecht, Vancouver, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw, Wurtemburg, Yokohama, Zagreb, and Zurich.

I urge you to be very wary of following this bad American practice. In America, some of the worst tooth decay is occurring in cities which have been fluoridated for over 20 years. This is largely because America does a terrible job of getting dental care to families of low income. 80% of American dentists refuse to treat poor children on MedicAid. It is well established that there is a far greater relationship between poor dietary habits, and low income levels, than you will ever find with lack of ingested fluoride. In the US, and elsewhere, health authorities should find better ways of providing dental care for families of low income, as well as education for a better diet and dental habits, than wasting taxpayers dollars pursuing the myth of water fluoridation.

Paul Connett, PhD,
Executive Director,
Fluoride Action Network
315-379-9200
http://www.FluorideA

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