UK - Feeling sore over fluoride
Feeling sore over fluorideDate: 05 August 2009
By Kate Lahive
CAMPAIGNERS have criticised moves that could pave the way for fluoride to be added to drinking water supplies across South Yorkshire.
Regional chiefs at the Yorkshire and Humber Strategic Health Authority have begun a consultation exercise to discuss the pros and cons of adding the chemical added to water supplies in the region.
The measure is intended to help reduce tooth decay for adults and children, but it is an issue that has ignited huge controversy over the years as many people are opposed to being made to drink the chemical.
It is understood that up to 50,000 homes on the edge of Sheffield, as well as others the Doncaster area, already have fluoride in their tap water as they are supplied by Severn Trent Water, which has added the chemical for years.
The rest of the region is supplied by Yorkshire Water, which has so far not added fluoride - but that could change following a new public consultation exercise.
However, a spokesperson for National Pure Water Association said: "Unlike other chemicals used to make water safe to drink, fluorosilicic acid is added to treat people.
"Severn Trent already medicates millions of customers without their individual, informed consent.
"Administering fluorosilicic acid to people without their informed, individual consent constitutes an act of mass assault."
A spokesperson for NHS Yorkshire and the Humber said the Department of Health had published guidance in 2008 to help improve dental health and reduce health inequalities.
One option to be considered was to fluoridate the local water supply.
Studies by the NHS have found that children living in areas where water contains fluoride suffered an average of 15 per cent less tooth decay compared with those in non-fluoridated areas.
She said: "The feasibility study is the first stage of an extensive process and will establish if topping up the natural level of fluoride is technically feasible.''
Kate Jones, Director of Dental Public Health, NHS Sheffield said: "Water fluoridation is a safe and effective method of improving dental health.
"The areas of Sheffield where residents receive fluoridated water from Severn Trent are receiving small amounts of fluoride - 0.4 parts of fluoride per million parts of water.
"The recommended level is around 1 parts of fluoride per million part of water.
"Early work on the impact on dental decay levels in the homes in Sheffield where the water is fluoridated suggests a beneficial effect."
She added: "In Sheffield there are many children suffering from tooth decay. Water fluoridation has been shown to have an effect over and above that of other sources of fluoride including toothpaste."
By Kate Lahive
CAMPAIGNERS have criticised moves that could pave the way for fluoride to be added to drinking water supplies across South Yorkshire.
Regional chiefs at the Yorkshire and Humber Strategic Health Authority have begun a consultation exercise to discuss the pros and cons of adding the chemical added to water supplies in the region.
The measure is intended to help reduce tooth decay for adults and children, but it is an issue that has ignited huge controversy over the years as many people are opposed to being made to drink the chemical.
It is understood that up to 50,000 homes on the edge of Sheffield, as well as others the Doncaster area, already have fluoride in their tap water as they are supplied by Severn Trent Water, which has added the chemical for years.
The rest of the region is supplied by Yorkshire Water, which has so far not added fluoride - but that could change following a new public consultation exercise.
However, a spokesperson for National Pure Water Association said: "Unlike other chemicals used to make water safe to drink, fluorosilicic acid is added to treat people.
"Severn Trent already medicates millions of customers without their individual, informed consent.
"Administering fluorosilicic acid to people without their informed, individual consent constitutes an act of mass assault."
A spokesperson for NHS Yorkshire and the Humber said the Department of Health had published guidance in 2008 to help improve dental health and reduce health inequalities.
One option to be considered was to fluoridate the local water supply.
Studies by the NHS have found that children living in areas where water contains fluoride suffered an average of 15 per cent less tooth decay compared with those in non-fluoridated areas.
She said: "The feasibility study is the first stage of an extensive process and will establish if topping up the natural level of fluoride is technically feasible.''
Kate Jones, Director of Dental Public Health, NHS Sheffield said: "Water fluoridation is a safe and effective method of improving dental health.
"The areas of Sheffield where residents receive fluoridated water from Severn Trent are receiving small amounts of fluoride - 0.4 parts of fluoride per million parts of water.
"The recommended level is around 1 parts of fluoride per million part of water.
"Early work on the impact on dental decay levels in the homes in Sheffield where the water is fluoridated suggests a beneficial effect."
She added: "In Sheffield there are many children suffering from tooth decay. Water fluoridation has been shown to have an effect over and above that of other sources of fluoride including toothpaste."
posted by Bill at
9:42 AM
2 Comments:
It's always interesting to note that pro-fluoridationists never report the result of dental studies in terms of decayed, missing and filled teeth (DMFT); they deceive by quoting percentages such in the article above where it is mentioned that NHS studies found children living in areas where water contains fluoride suffered an average of 15% less tooth decay compared with those in non-fluoridated areas.
In the Brunelle & Carlos study in the US (the largest of its kind every undertaken in the US) Brunelle and Carlos reported an 18% difference in mean DMFT between fluoridation and non-fluoridated children studied in 84 communities (about 39,000 children if I recall correctly).
The 18% difference amounted to 0.6 of one tooth surface in a child's mouth with 128 tooth surfaces.
In an Australian study conducted this decade it was reported in the study that it was not possible to separate the effects of fluoride in toothpaste from fluoride in water.
If 500 parts per million fluoride in children's toothpaste and 1,000 parts per million fluoride in adult toothpaste doesn't end dental decay, it is ludicrous to claim that 1 part per million fluoride in drinking water will do the trick.
Besides, fluoride actually damages teeth: it was known prior to the beginning of artificial fluoridation that at least 1% of children who drank water fluoridated at 1 ppm would develop dental fluorosis which is a visible sign of chronic fluoride poisoning.
A 1960 study of 9-12-year-old Hong Kong children found 1% of them already had dental fluorosis - prior to the fluoridation of Hong Kong's water supply in 1961. By 1968, 59% of 9-12-year-old Hong Kong children had dental fluorosis and by 1980, 70% of this age group had developed dental fluorosis. Then by 1986 the dental fluorosis rate was down to a still-high figure of 47% (after the rate at which the water was fluoridated had been reduced some time previously). Then by 2001 the dental fluorosis rate had reduced further following another reduction in the amount of fluoride added to Hong Kong's water supply.
I accuse pro-fluoridationists of being irresponsibly uncaring about how many children end up being chronically poisoned with a substance whose carcinogenicity was established in three courts cases in the US, but the authorities keep denying that it's that harmful.
But then, leaded petrol, asbestos and cigarette smoking wasn't harmful! Or was it?
By
Rambling Rose, at 05 August, 2009
Fluoride is POISON!
For vital information on this topic, please read, "The Flouride Deception", by Christopher Bryson. (USA)
You will be shocked and enraged at how the US government and scientists working for powerful industries, lied to the people.
You are being lied to, too. Your children particularly are at risk.
They-in this case, the Yorkshire Health Authority- are spouting the same lies.
Please, do your homework, Fluoride should never be added to drinking water, in any country!!
More info here: http://www.fluoridealert.org/faqs.htm#A1
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Anonymous, at 18 August, 2009
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