Fluoride in Tap Water Damages Your Health
Even small amounts of fluoride consumed from tap water can damage your bones, teeth, brain, disrupt your thyroid function, lower IQ and/or cause cancer, according to evidence revealed in a groundbreaking 2006 National Research Council (NRC) fluoride report produced by a panel of experts who reviewed hundreds of published fluoride studies.
Fluoridation cheerleaders such as the American Dental Association (ADA) and the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) claim this report has nothing to do with fluoridation (the addition of fluoride chemicals into public water supplies). However, because of the NRC report, both the ADA and CDC now recommend that infant formula NOT be mixed with fluoridated water.
Citing the NRC report, the National Kidney Foundation withdrew its support of fluoridation and replaced it with this warning: “Individuals with CKD [Chronic Kidney Disease] should be notified of the potential risk of fluoride exposure.”
A January 2008 Scientific American article reported that after 3 years of scrutinizing hundreds of studies, the NRC expert panel “concluded that fluoride can subtly alter endocrine function, especially in the thyroid – the gland that produces hormones regulating growth and metabolism,” reports its author Dan Fagin.
Fagin quotes John Doull, professor emeritus of pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, who chaired the NRC expert panel: “The thyroid changes do worry me.”
“Many Americans are exposed to fluoride in the ranges associated with thyroid effects, especially for people with iodine deficiency,” said Kathleen Thiessen, PhD, co-author of the government-sponsored NRC report. “The recent decline in iodine intake in the U.S could contribute to increased toxicity of fluoride for some individuals,” says Thiessen. She and at least two other panel members publicly call for an end to water fluoridation.
“A low level of thyroid hormone can increase the risk of cardiac disease, high cholesterol, depression and, in pregnant woman, decreased intelligence of offspring,” said Thiessen.
An analysis of published fluoride/IQ studies e-published 8/10/08 “found a consistent and strong association between the exposure to fluoride and low IQ (published in Biological Trace Element Research el al.).
An Institute for Children’s Environmental Health report published February 2008 and revised July 2008 said "The primary question remains as to whether exposures to fluoride via multiple routes of exposure, from drinking water, food and dental-care products, may result in a high enough cumulative exposure to contribute to developmental effects…(E)merging science suggests we need to further study the dose at which fluoridation may increase risks of neurodevelopment disorders, cancer and skeletal or dental fluorosis, particularly for sensitive individuals."
Over 1,840 professionals signed a statement urging Congress to stop water fluoridation until Congressional hearings are conducted. See: http://www.fluorideaction.org/statement.august.2007.html
An Online Action Petition to Congress in support of the Professionals' Statement is available on the Fluoride Action Network's web site, http://congress.fluorideaction.net
Organized dentistry and many individual dentists in government and in private practice continue to ignore and/or lie about this extremely scientific NRC report in favor of promoting fluoride.
This is beneficial to corporations who financially support dental union groups such as the American Dental Association and its state constituent groups. They have made the American Dental Association into one of the richest and politically powerful lobbying groups in the country which continually legislates for laws that benefits dentists.
Because of the ADA’s money and power, most dentists make three times as much as physicians while working fewer hours and days doing less critical work. They are the rich "guys" contributing to political coffers. However, 80% of dentists refuse to treat Medicaid patients and 108 million Americans don't have dental insurance. As a result, people in America are dying from untreated tooth decay.
Fluoridation gives legislators a false fact to fall back upon when asked why they support water fluoridation. The truth is they support the American Dental Association and the fluoride producing corporations who shore up political campaigns to get re-elected. In return, they pass laws favorable to dentists.
The New York Times reported how the NY Dental Society, in effect, buys laws that benefit themselves. (July 16, 2008 editorial “Dental Decay in Albany”)
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How in the world did this nonsense get printed in our paper? Sally is twisting facts about flouride, and has no idea how the badly managed healthcare system works. Physicians are hurt by the poorly managed healthcare system in our country, and because of this, often they are under paid and over worked. Dentist do not benefit in any way financially from the ADA. "Sally" sounds like someone who reads only what she already believes , and obviously has some serious personal conflicts to state such arguments. Maybe she should research more diverse clinical trials to hear both sides.
Despite there being a dire need for dental care in rural Alaska, where no amount of money has been able to attract dentists to live and work, the American Dental Association and The Alaska Dental Society spent $1 million in lawsuits trying to stop newly trained Dental Health Aide Therapists (DHATs) from filling teeth in Alaskans who would otherwise pull their own teeth.
DHATs or Dental Therapists have worked for decades in other developed countries. Their work is as good as dentists. However, they need much less schooling, charge much less money and usually live in areas where rich dentists choose not to live and/or work - dentists made rich by the laws their dental unions push through at the state and federal levels.
A Washington State University thought this was a good idea too and was going to start DHAT training in this country (currently they are trained in New Zealand). But political pressure by the ADA forced them to stop before they even started.
Organized dentistry tries to use its political might and money to stop viable groups from fixing the dental health crisis which has occurred on their watch which is causing people to die from untreated tooth decay. Organized dentistry almost always shows up in court to stop any group from infringing upon their lucrative monopoly.
Recently, they fought against denturists who would fit patients false teeth directly without the expensive middle man - the dentist who wanted his "taste" of the revenue. Sometimes they oppose dental hygienists having solo practices.
The NYS Dental Society is very powerful and gets almost everything they ask for passed by the NYS legislature, according to a NY Times article. In return, legislators get fat checks in their campaign coffers. Do you really believe dental associations are set up to benefit me?
Recently, to "solve" the dental health crisis because Americans can't afford dentists, NYS passed a dentist-created law that requires students to go to the dentists before they enter school.
Of course, those with the most need can't afford to go to the dentist. So the bill actually benefited dentists whose richer patients will make sure their kids get that required dental check-up. The dental health crisis is occurring in low-income Americans and those without insurance who aren't going to go to the dentists unless they have a toothache no matter what laws the state passes.
This law is just another unfuned (and unnecessary) mandate.
What needs to be done is to mandate that dentists treat more Mediciad patients and low-income Americans without insurance or allow other groups to do so.