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UK Against Fluoridation

Friday, February 16, 2018

USA - Should Springfield fluoridate its drinking water?

Springfield city commissioners could resume discussion next month, health commissioner says.
Posted: 7:00 a.m. Thursday, February 15, 2018

SPRINGFIELD —
Clark County ranks among the worst in Ohio for children’s dental health, but the Springfield community remains divided over whether it should fluoridate its drinking water to address it.


Clark County health leaders and local dentists believe adding fluoride to the public water supply will reduce dental decay but a vocal group of residents believe it will be harmful to the community......................
......Despite more than 70 years of fluoridated water in some areas and more than 60 years of using fluoride toothpaste, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders proposed a bill to increase dental care throughout the United States in 2015, the e-mail said.
People are being overexposed to fluoride, said Dr. Bill Osmunson, a Bellevue, Wash.-based dentist who serves as director of the Fluoride Action Network. About 60 percent of adolescents are showing fluoride overdose symptoms, such as discolored teeth, he said.

“It’s not time to add more,” Osmunson said. “We need to be cutting back on the amount of fluoride. We need to find out why children are getting so much fluoride.”

About 10 percent of people are drinking too much fluoridated water, he said. He’s also concerned that infants who are fed formula with fluoridated water are getting more than 200 times the recommended dosage.

“We’re giving way too much to infants during the development of their brain, their thyroid and their bones,” he said.

Osmunson promoted fluoride for about 25 years after dental school, but he said research shows fluoride doesn’t do any good — it’s actually harmful if you get too much.

Fluoride also isn’t recommended to be swallowed by the Food and Drug Administration, Osmunson said.

“It seems borderline criminal to be forcing everybody to ingest something the Food and Drug Administration says ‘Do not swallow,” Osmunson said.

Too much fluoride can cause white spots on your teeth, Lord said, but it’s not enough to kill you or cause cancer. Anything taken in large amounts can be dangerous, but overfluoridation is a gray area, he said.

“On a large, large, large scale, fluoride can be (harmful),” he said. “But if a kid eats a whole tube of toothpaste, it’s not going to kill them. Does it make them sick for awhile? Sure. We’re not going to take fluoride out of toothpaste because a kid eats a whole tube because it tastes so good.”

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