Dentists Spread False Fluoride Data

Fluoride Action Network ^ | 8/22/07 | Fluoride Action Network

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ADA Distributing Misleading Information on Two Federal Fluoride Reports, Says Fluoride Action Network

New York -- In a statement released August 9, 2007, over 600 dentists, physicians, scientists and environmentalists urge Congress to stop water fluoridation until Congressional hearings are conducted. They cite new scientific evidence that fluoridation, long promoted to fight tooth decay, is ineffective and has serious health risks. (http://www.fluorideaction.org/statement.august.2007.html)

Signers include a Nobel Prize winner, three members of the prestigious 2006 National Research Council (NRC) panel that reported on fluoride’s toxicology, two officers in the Union representing professionals at EPA headquarters, the President of the International Society of Doctors for the Environment, and hundreds of medical, dental, academic, scientific and environmental professionals, worldwide.

Signer Dr. Arvid Carlsson, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine, says, “Fluoridation is against all principles of modern pharmacology. It's really obsolete.”

An Online Action Petition to Congress in support of the Professionals' Statement is available on FAN's web site, www.fluorideaction.org.

“The NRC report dramatically changed scientific understanding of fluoride's health risks," says Connett. "Government officials who continue to promote fluoridation must testify under oath as to why they are ignoring the powerful evidence of harm in the NRC report,” he added.

An Assistant NY State Attorney General calls the report “the most up-to-date expert authority on the health effects of fluoride exposure.”

The Professionals’ Statement also references:

-- The new American Dental Association policy recommending infant formula NOT be prepared with fluoridated water. -- The CDC’s concession that the predominant benefit of fluoride is topical not systemic. -- CDC data showing that dental fluorosis, caused by fluoride over-exposure, now impacts one third of American children. -- Major research indicating little difference in decay rates between fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities. -- A Harvard study indicating a possible link between fluoridation and bone cancer. -- The silicofluoride chemicals used for fluoridation are contaminated industrial waste and have never been FDA- approved for human ingestion.

The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a DC watchdog, revealed that a Harvard professor concealed the fluoridation/bone cancer connection for three years. EWG President Ken Cook states, “It is time for the US to recognize that fluoridation has serious risks that far outweigh any minor benefits, and unlike many other environmental issues, it's as easy to end as turning off a valve at the water plant.”

Partially, as a result of this statement, at least one city, Cobleskill NY, stopped 54 years of water fluoridation. See: http://www.fluoridealert.org/news/2998.html

Many communities rejected or stopped fluoridation over the years. See: http://www.fluoridealert.org/communities.htm

Take Action to End Fluoridation. Sign the Online Petition to End Fluoridation and call for a Congressional Hearing

http://www.actionstudio.org/public/page_view_all.cfm?option=begin&pageid=8276

[gondramB]

>>You are wrong there is a GREAT demand for dental care. After 60 years of water fluoridation reaching 2/3 of Americans on public water supplies and virtually 100% via the food supply along with a host of fluoridated dental products, U.S. school children are fluoride-overdosed and are sporting dental fluorosis (fluoride-damaged teeth)...

However, over 40% of Americans have no dental insurance. Low-income folks theoretically have Medicaid to cover dental. However, 80% of dentists refuse to treat Medicaid patients.

Many Americans are living their lives with dental pain and disfigurement. And dentists haven’t lost a dime endorsing fluoridation<<

You might want to read up some more.

The number of dentists per 100,000 population peaked in the 1980's. There is less demand for dentists, in spite of more insurance and more ostrasization of people with bad teeth.



So it looks like Dentists are encouraging behavior that hurts them Its hard to see that as a conspiracy. Also treating this like a conspiracy lessen the actual work on the real concerns. The CDC found dental fluororis has increased by 9%. That's a real concern and even though most of that is in baby teeth and cavities are down by 80% its still a concern.

But claiming a great conspiracy isn't the way to address it.

[gondramB]

>>We had a young boy next door that was given flouride mouthwash by his pediatrician because we all had well water. It took the enamel off his teeth and ruined them.<<

I’m obviously sorry to hear that.