It's Time to Retire Fluoridation
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New York - January 25 2010 -- Sixty-five years ago, sodium fluoride
powder was slowly poured into Grand Rapids, Michigan's public water
supply to see if drinking fluoridated water (fluoridation) really
safely reduced children's tooth decay. Nearby Muskegon was left
fluoridation-free, for only 5 years, as the experiment's control city
for comparison purposes even though evaluations were made after 15
years. (1)
Before then, sodium fluoride was mainly used as a rat poison.
The study failed and was seriously flawed; but early over-zealous
fluoridationists ignored this inconvenienttruth. Fluoridation was
declared a success, anyway (2) and spread across the country and the
world based on positive-spun PR but invalid science.
So what's happening today?
Grand Rapids children have high rates of tooth decay and fluoride
overdose - dental fluorosis, white spotted, yellow, brown and/or
pitted enamel.(3)
According to the Grand Rapids Press, one pediatric dentist said in
2007 "...we see children under the age of 2 with active decay...Rather
than just a few cavities, we're seeing a lot of cavities. It's not
unusual to see a child with 8 to 10 cavities." (4)
Despite 65 years of water fluoridation reaching 70% of Americans on
public water supplies and virtually 100% via the food supply and
despite 55 years of fluoridated toothpaste, tooth decay has increased
in our most fluoridated population - toddlers - and UNtreated tooth
decay has risen, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
(5) Incredibly, American children have died from the consequences of
untreated tooth decay. (5a) with up to 48% of US school children now
sporting dental fluorosis, according to the CDC.
Today sodium fluoride is purchased from China and something's wrong
with it. Water engineers complain it's clogging up their systems (6)
Fluoridation opposition is scientific, respectable and growing.
Over 2,700 professionals urge the US Congress to stop water
fluoridation until Congressional hearings are conducted, citing
scientific evidence that fluoridation, long promoted to fight tooth
decay, is ineffective and has serious health risks. See statement
http://www.fluorideaction.org/statement.august.2007.html
Also, eleven Environmental Protection Agency employee unions
representing over 7000 environmental and public health professionals
called for a moratorium on drinking water fluoridation programs across
the country, and have asked EPA management to recognize fluoride as
posing a serious risk of causing cancer in people.
Approximately, 80 US communities rejected fluoridation in 2008 & 2009
(7) .
References:
1) Grand Rapids fluoridation Study - Results Pertaining to the
Eleventh Year of Fluoridation, by Francis A Arnold ,American Journal
of Public Health, May 1957 "In making comparisons on these data it
should be remembered that Muskegon started fluoridation in July 1951"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1551218/pdf/amjphnation01088-0018.pdf
2) Fluoridation: Errors and Omissions in Experimental Trials
[Chapters
19, 20 and 21. Philip Sutton. Originally published in 1960]
3) "Some babies get too much fluoride," The Grand Rapids Press, by
Morgan Jarema October 09, 2007 http://www.fluoridealert.org/news/3091.html
4) "Protecting kids' teeth includes trips to the dentist," The Grand
Rapids Press, by Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood, June 19, 2007
5) "Tooth Decay In American Preschool Kids On The Rise"
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/07newsreleases/oralhealth.htm
5a) "For Want of a Dentist Pr. George's Boy Dies After Bacteria From
Tooth Spread to Brain," Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/27/AR2007022702116.html
and
http://www.pedidental.org/pdfs/PDI%20Holiday%20Newsletter.pdf
6) "Feds Note Fluoride Problem," January 25, 2010
http://www.newburyportnews.com/punews/local_story_024222057.html