The spirit of fear sells books, promotes a person, and totally distorts the good fluoride does for us. I have been a dentist for decades and watched this debate. I have practiced dentistry in well fluoridated communities and non fluoridated communities. The devastation to the teeth of the young children is sad in the communities that are not properly fluoridated. Those medical and dental professionals that use their degree to write and sell books for profit that are totally non science have done us all a great disservice, whether it is about fluoride, cancer treatments, or UFOs. Fluoride at the proper concentration is not a problem. It is strange that the same people that do not like fluoride have no problem with adding the very strong poison chlorine to our public water.
Does the funding of "research" by organizations that receive money from people who want to sell for profit an otherwise useless industrial byproduct mean anything to you?
Fluoride is essential to mineralization, but as an ultra trace element. Thats why dental health IS worse in non-flouridated areas. Fluoride requirements are not in the category of zinc, selenium or manganese, but rather in amounts as boron, nickel or vanadium in the body. The deletorious health effects of fluoride are due to overexposure beyond the body's needs (resulting from cumulative effects of water, toothpastes, dental gels etc.)