Collier County, Florida, is 80% fluoridated but cavity rates “were among the highest levels documented in the United States
As Your Dentist I Recommend Viceroys Cigarettes and Fluoride in the Water ….
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No Valid Evidence Exists to Prove Fluoridation Works, say Researchers
New York – November, 2015 — After reviewing all available fluoridation studies, the independent and trusted UK-based Cochrane group of researchers could not find any quality evidence to prove fluoridation changes the “existing differences in tooth decay across socioeconomic groups.” Neither could they find valid evidence that fluoride reduces adults’ cavity rates nor that fluoridation cessation increases tooth decay, reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. (NYSCOF).
Fluoridation may reduce cavities in children (2 primary teeth or 1 permanent tooth). But Cochrane cautions these studies have “high risk of bias” and were mostly done before preventive measures were widespread, e.g. fluoridated toothpaste and sealants.
Diverting attention away from Cochrane, the Centers for Disease Control, which indirectly funded the Cochrane Review, and the American Dental Association defended fluoridation recommending instead the 2013 U.S. Community Preventive Services Task Force’s Fluoridation Recommendation.
But the Task Force also admitted it couldn’t evaluate how race, ethnicity and total fluoride intake influenced fluoridation effectiveness because of limited data. “Few studies provided data on socioeconomic status, and most studies had measurement issues; many didn’t blind examiners and there was a lack of consistency among indices used to measure caries.”
Unlike the ADA and CDC Foundation, the Cochrane Group is “unconstrained by commercial and financial interests.” Cochrane answered its critics here.
Newsweek reports that scientists, who were assigned to review fluoridation research, are shocked at the lack of valid fluoridation-supporting evidence. Government agencies have a long history of minimizing reviews critical of fluoridation science.
Collier County, Florida, is 80% fluoridated but cavity rates among third-graders “were among the highest levels documented in the United States,” according to University of Florida researchers and presented at the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry’s May 2014 annual meeting. After examining 2,813 children, the researchers report that 67% experienced tooth decay, 40% untreated. Nine percent needed urgent care. In two schools over 95% had cavities. In six schools over 80% had cavities Four schools over 70%. About 7 schools had 60% or more cavities.
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Tooth decay crises are occurring in all fluoridated cities and states. See http://www.FluorideNews.
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Over 4600 professionals urge that fluoridation end because it’s ineffective, harmful and a waste of money.
See statement: http://fluoridealert.org/
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Many researchers looked, but couldn’t find, any valid fluoridation supporting science.
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In the 1940s and 1950s, dentists in their eagerness to have a magic bullet that would enhance their professional prestige, promoted fluoridation heavily and dismissed legitimate debate over the merits of fluoridation within the scientific, medical and dental communities, according to an American Journal of Public Health article by Catherine Carstairs, PhD (June 2015).
In 2001, Cohen and Locker reported that ffluoridation may be immoral with benefits exaggerated and risks minimized Journal of the Canadian Dental Association . “Ethically, it cannot be argued that past benefits, by themselves, justify continuing the practice of fluoridation,” they write.
“In my view, the evidence is quite convincing that the addition of sodium fluoride to the public water supply at one part per million is extremely deleterious to the human body, and, a review of the evidence will disclose that there was no convincing evidence to the contrary…”
Most of the pro-fluoridationists who will speak and write to you will invariably use talking points provided by PR people and who also may have attended fluoridation spokesperson training. They will use appeal to authority, political might, a list of organizations lobbied to endorse fluoridation and avoidance of risk discussion. Those opposed to fluoridation will always provide scientific and government’s evidence showing that fluoridation is ineffective, harmful and a huge waste of money.
The bottom line is that fluoride is nether a nutrinet nor essential for healthy teeth. No human is or every was fluoride deficient. Like all drugs, fluoride has adverse effects. Legislators should never be bullied to prescribe drugs to their entire constituency and dosed based on thirst and not age, health, weight and need
The crisis most Floridians face is not lack of fluoride but lack of dentists. Most dentists refuse to treat Medicaid patients and Medicare doesn’t include dental care. Dentistry has priced low-income Floridians out of the care they need. So they seek care in hospital ER’s costing taxpayers ten times the amount of a simple filling.
SOURCE: NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc.
The real question is not whether fluoride is good for us or bad for us, although data on that issue is certainly needed and welcomed.
The real question is who owns your body. If the answer is that you own yourself, then your body is much like your car. You can care for it and maintain it or you can ignore it and let it fall into disrepair–but that choice is yours. As long as you do not use your car to harm others you can do with it what you will.
When anyone, be it a governmental entity or the majority of voters, tells you that you have to consume a certain substance they are curtailing your right to the free use of your own body. In the case of fluoride, those who do not wish to consume it are in no way harming their fellows.