Fluoridation's Unhappy Birthday

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New York - January 25 2008 -- Sixty-three years ago, January 25,
1945, sodium fluoride was slowly poured into Grand Rapids, Michigan's
public water supply to prove that fluoridation reduces children's
tooth decay. Nearby Muskegon was left fluoridation-free as the
experiment's control city for comparison purposes.

The study failed; but early fluoridationists ignored this inconvenient
truth.

Named a "demonstration project" so as not to alarm residents about
what was actually occurring, the experiment was meant to last 15
years. After only five years, cavities went down in both Grand Rapids
and Muskegon. So officials fluoridated Muskegon which scientifically
nullified the study.(1)

Today Americans are fluoride overdosed, suffer from fluoride's toxic
effects while cavity rates rise.

"Grand Rapids has a moral obligation to stop fluoridation instead of
glorifying it so as to protect all Americans," says lawyer Paul
Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation.
"Grand Rapids current Mayor, who is also an ordained minister, should
begin that process." says Beeber.

There are many errors in the Grand Rapids experiment. (2) When a firm
of professional statisticians was employed to study the data published
from the trial, they concluded: "the lack of sophistication shown in
selecting the sample leads to complete bewilderment as to the precise
effects or the extent of the effect of fluoridation" (De Stefano
1954).

The Grand Rapids experiment never proved fluoridation was effective
and didn't even look for adverse health effects. But that hasn't
stopped public officials and organized dentistry from saying it did.
In fact, two monuments have been built in fluoridation's honor in
Grand Rapids. The first one crumbled and fell apart just as over-
fluoridated children's teeth tend to do.

So what's happening today?

Grand Rapids children are showing 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)

The state of Michigan is now 86% fluoridated and Detroit is 100%
fluoridated.

A study shows that, although fluoridated tap water is the most
consumed item, 83% of low-income Detroit African-American adults, 14-
years-old and over, have severe tooth decay.(5) Almost all Detroit's
African-American 5-year-olds have cavities, most of them go unfilled.
(6)

The Michigan Department of Community Health reports: (7)

Cavity rates in six to eight-year-olds are:

-- 75% for American Indian/Alaska Natives

-- 72% of Hispanics,

-- 57% of White non-Hispanic

-- 57% of Black non-Hispanic

-- 50% of Asians

"One in four (25%) Michigan third grade children have untreated dental
decay." Low income children have significantly higher rates of
untreated dental decay.

Uninsured or low-income children were six times more likely to have
immediate dental needs with signs or symptoms of pain, swelling, or
infection than privately insured or higher income children.

"Obviously fluoridation has not reduced or leveled out tooth decay
rates between poor and non-poor Michigan children," says Beeber.
"Instead Michigan children are unnecessarily being exposed to fluoride
which is linked to bone, thyroid, kidney and tooth damage," he says.

Today 2/3 of U.S. public water supplies and virtually 100% of the food
supply are fluoridated. Fluoridated dental products have become a
multi-billion dollar international market run by powerful corporations
who fund organized dentistry through convention sponsorship, grants,
journal advertising, etc.

"Fluoridation campaigns provide a unique opportunity for dentistry to
help reduce the incidence of dental disease while establishing
political viability...," according to the Journal of the American
Dental Association, "Fluoridation Election Victory: A Case Study for
Dentistry in Effective Political Action," April 1981.

The American Dental Association has a very powerful and influential
political action committee.(8)

The National Institutes of Dental Research was founded and built upon
fluoridation and uses the fluoride crystal as its website logo.

Government agencies have distributed probably billions of dollars over
the decades for fluoride research, some of which indicates that
fluoridation is ineffective at reducing tooth decay, harmful to health
and a waste of taxpayer funds - as the Grand Rapids experiment was the
first to show.

How did this happen?

In the early 1900's, brown and yellow discolored, but decay resistant,
teeth were prevalent in healthier, wealthier U.S. populations drinking
and irrigating their crops with water containing fluoride as well as
calcium and other minerals.

Researchers discovered fluoride was the tooth discoloring culprit and
mistakenly thought fluoride was also the cavity-fighting hero -
unaware that calcium was required to grow sound dentition. And also
unaware of Dentist Weston Price's extensive research published in 1939
showing that without fluoride, healthier populations had healthier
teeth because of good diets.

Public health officials, so sure that sodium fluoride safely benefited
children's teeth, had no misgivings about carrying out this very
unusual experiment without first doing animal studies, without
informed consent and without thought or interest about how sodium
fluoride could affect adults.

Mistakenly assuming all fluorides are the same, in 1945, sodium
fluoride, waste products from industries such as Alcoa Aluminum
Company, was added to Grand Rapids water supply.

Recently, researchers made a huge new discovery - something that works
better than fluoride - calcium.(9)

"We're not surprised," says Beeber.

Online Petition to End Fluoridation and call for a Congressional
Hearing

http://www.fluorideaction.net/congress


SOURCE: New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc

PO Box 263

Old Bethpage, NY 11803

http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof

http://www.FluorideAction.Net



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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 comparisonson these data it should be remembered that
Muskegon started fluoridation in July 1951"

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1551218&blobtype=pdf

2) Fluoridation: Errors and Omissions in Experimental Trials [Chapters
19, 20 and 21. Philip Sutton. Originally published in 1960]

http://www.awaywolf.com/fluoridation/science/papers/sutton/sutton_1a.htm

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) "Dietary Patterns Related to Caries in a Low-Income Adult
Population, Burt, et al., Caries Research 2006:40:473-480

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1626651

6) "Severity of Dental Caries among African American Children in
Detroit," by Ismail et al, Abstract presented at the March 2006
International Association of Dental Research Annual Meerting
http://snipurl.com/n8m2

7) 2006 "Burden of Oral Disease in Michigan," Michigan Department of
Community Health http://www.mdhatoday.org/pdf/oralhealth2006.pdf

8) http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Dental_Association

9) "NovaMin sees breakout year for tooth renewing products." Tech
Journal South,
January 11, 2008, By Allan Maurer
http://www.techjournalsouth.com/news/article.html?item_id=4585