Federal Statistics Show Fluoridation has Failed – Officials Promote It Anyway

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Fluoridation is not lowering tooth decay according to US Centers for
Disease Control (CDC) statistics. (1)

Man-made fluoride chemicals are added to 2/3 of US water supplies
ostensibly to reduce tooth decay to levels found in people consuming
naturally fluoridated water. This began in 1945 and promised a 60 –
70% cavity reduction.

A 1981 government report reveals the first evidence of fluoridation’s
failure: (1a) “Regional differences in caries prevalence in the United
States were reported as early as 1941 and have evidently persisted
over four decades.”

The most highly fluoridated states have very high cavity rates, much
of it untreated (2), the CDC reports.

For example, CDC statistics show that:

-- Despite a 60% fluoridation rate, Arkansas has the most third-
graders suffering with tooth decay (72%) with 42% untreated.

-- Oklahoma third-graders endure the third worst cavity rate (69%)
even though 3/4 of the state is fluoridated. (40% is untreated)

-- Nevada’s 69% fluoridation rate didn’t stop 67% of third-graders
from getting cavities. (30% untreated)

-- Similarly, although South Dakota is 78% fluoridated, 67% of their
third-graders have cavities. (30% untreated)

The CDC also reports that up to 48% of US school children are fluoride
overdosed sporting dental fluorosis – white spotted, yellow, brown and/
or pitted teeth (3). Yet tooth decay is rising in our most fluoridated
generation – toddlers (4)

The U.S. Surgeon General reports that excessive fluoride increases
susceptibility to cavities. (10)

Also, Chemicals commonly used to fluoridate drinking water may
actually increase rather than decrease tooth decay, according to a
study published in a U.S. government journal, "Environmental Health
Perspectives." (9)

By neglecting the poor, organized dentistry helped create an oral
health epidemic.(5) Eighty percent of dentists refuse Medicaid
patients and 108 million Americans lack dental insurance.

“Promoting fluoridation may deflect government regulators from forcing
dentists to treat poor children but will solve no problems and create
more,” says attorney Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition
Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc.

The CDC calls fluoridation one of the Ten Great Public Health
Achievements of the 20th century (7) citing, as its source, a 1999
Dental Textbook by Burt BA, Eklund SA. Dentistry, dental practice, and
the community. (published by: WB Saunders Company)

This is what the Burt, Eklund dental textbook also reveals:

* Fluoride is neither a nutrient nor essential.

* Fluoride incorporated into developing teeth does NOT reduce tooth
decay but does increase fluorosis. Alleged beneficial effects occur
topically.

* There is no evidence that "optimal" intake inhibits cavities. In
fact, the authors suggest "optimum intake" of fluoride be dropped from
common usage.

* Near universal fluoridation in the U.S.A. hasn't leveled out tooth
decay rates, instead fluorosis has spread and increased.

* Not every possible hypothesis regarding fluoride and human health
was
tested before beginning fluoridation.

* "No clear reasons for the caries (cavities) decline (in the U.S.)
have been identified"

* At between 3 and 4 times "optimal," fluoride causes tooth decay

* "Dental fluorosis cannot be classed as a public health problem in
the
United States ... It would be a mistake, however, to assume that it
could not become so."

Over 1,700 professionals signed a statement urging Congress to
sponsor a fluoridation hearing so that those in government agencies
who continue to support the procedure, particularly the Oral Health
Division of the CDC, be compelled to provide the scientific basis for
their ongoing promotion of fluoridation. They must be cross-examined
under oath if the public is ever to fully learn the truth about this
outdated, ineffective and harmful practice.

Eleven environmental protection agency employee unions, representing
over 7000 environmental and public health professionals, call for a
halt on drinking water fluoridation programs across the USA and asked
EPA management to recognize fluoride as posing a serious risk of
causing cancer in people.(8)

You can support this professionals’ statement and our EPA scientists
by petitioning your representatives here:
http://congress.fluorideaction.net


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References:

1) http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/nohss/IndicatorV.asp?Indicator=2

2) http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/nohss/IndicatorV.asp?Indicator=3

3) http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/figures/s403a1t23.gif

4) http://www.cdhp.org/downloads/mmwrfinal90805.pdf

5) "FIRST-EVER SURGEON GENERAL'S REPORT ON ORAL HEALTH FINDS PROFOUND
DISPARITIES IN NATION'S POPULATION," News Release, May 2000,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/news/pressreleases/pr_oral_52000.htm

7) http://www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/00056796.htm


8) http://nteu280.org/Issues/Fluoride/fluroride%20.unions.congress.htm

9) http://www.ehponline.org/members/2002/110pA625-A630gemmel/gemmel-full.html

10) 3) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Oral Health in
America: A Report of the Surgeon General. Released in 2000; Page 203