Ireland - Chief Medical Officer latest casualty of fluoridation spin
Chief Medical Officer latest casualty of fluoridation spin
By admin on April 27, 2012
The March 27th claim by Chief Medical Officer (‘CMO’) Dr Tony Holohan that fluoridation still makes a positive and safe contribution to oral health in Ireland ignores its rejection by the rest of Europe and the lack of any independent, critical scrutiny of the practice here.
Not only was the sole investigation of this crude dental policy by Micheal Martin’s Fluoridation Forum described as a whitewash by Green TD John Gormley but its main architect, Chief Dental Officer Dr Gerry Gavin, resigned a few months after it was published in late 2002 and he has not been replaced since.
Dr Holohan also ignores the recent EU scientific risk assessment that ‘people do not need to ingest fluoride for normal growth and development’ and that ‘there is no obvious advantage of water fluoridation compared with topically applied fluoride’.
For ten years normal European dental policy has been displaced by an obsession with defending fluoridation at all costs while the many Irish dentists opposing fluoridation are not even represented on the Irish Expert Body on Fluorides and Health. With its last minuted meeting dating from November 2010, why do both the health minister and the CMO rely on such a discredited body?
The many reasons why the rest of Europe stopped fluoridation were also investigated by the Joint Oireachtas Health Committee but its report was blocked by FF and PD members. To see its main conclusions, which are just as valid today as in 2007, the CMO should click here www.fluoridereport.com and then see how badly he has been misled.
By admin on April 27, 2012
The March 27th claim by Chief Medical Officer (‘CMO’) Dr Tony Holohan that fluoridation still makes a positive and safe contribution to oral health in Ireland ignores its rejection by the rest of Europe and the lack of any independent, critical scrutiny of the practice here.
Not only was the sole investigation of this crude dental policy by Micheal Martin’s Fluoridation Forum described as a whitewash by Green TD John Gormley but its main architect, Chief Dental Officer Dr Gerry Gavin, resigned a few months after it was published in late 2002 and he has not been replaced since.
Dr Holohan also ignores the recent EU scientific risk assessment that ‘people do not need to ingest fluoride for normal growth and development’ and that ‘there is no obvious advantage of water fluoridation compared with topically applied fluoride’.
For ten years normal European dental policy has been displaced by an obsession with defending fluoridation at all costs while the many Irish dentists opposing fluoridation are not even represented on the Irish Expert Body on Fluorides and Health. With its last minuted meeting dating from November 2010, why do both the health minister and the CMO rely on such a discredited body?
The many reasons why the rest of Europe stopped fluoridation were also investigated by the Joint Oireachtas Health Committee but its report was blocked by FF and PD members. To see its main conclusions, which are just as valid today as in 2007, the CMO should click here www.fluoridereport.com and then see how badly he has been misled.
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