Posted on January 7 at 8 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Fluoridation is Ineffective & Harmfujl

Over 2,024 professionals urge the US Congress to stop water fluoridation until Congressional hearings are conducted, citing scientific evidence that fluoridation, long promoted to fight tooth decay, is ineffective and has serious health risks. See statement: http://www.fluorideaction.org/statement....

Fifty three US cities rejected fluoridation on election day 2008.

A Tennessee State legislator who is also an MD is urging all Tennessee Water Districts to stop fluoridation, reported a Tennessee newspaper on 11/29/08. At least 30 Tennessee water districts have already complied with his request.

On 1/6/09, a Canadian town, Drayton, stopped fluoridation, not to save money, but because it was in the best interests of residents, said the Mayor.

On 1/5/09, the Burlington VT Board of Health passed a resolution urging the Burlington legislature to stop water fluoridation. "In light of recent scientific developments indicating the potential for harm to certain subsets of the population, the Burlington Board of Health recommends immediately taking a precautionary stance by discontinuing the practice of water fluoridation," the resolution reads.

-- The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, Canada’s leading voice on environmental health issues, released a statement opposing fluoridation.

-- The National Kidney Foundation dropped its fluoridation support replacing it with this caution: “Individuals with CKD [Chronic Kidney Disease] should be notified of the potential risk of fluoride exposure.” (1)

-- Researchers reporting in the Oct 6 2007 British Medical Journal indicate that fluoridation was never was proven safe or effective and may be unethical. (2)

-- “A qualitative review of ...studies found a consistent and strong association between the exposure to fluoride and low IQ,” concluded Tang el al., in "Fluoride and Children’s Intelligence: A Meta-analysis” in Biological Trace Element Research (e-published 8/10/08)

-- Scientific American editors wrote in January 2008, "Some recent studies suggest that over-consumption of fluoride can raise the risks of disorders affecting teeth, bones, the brain and the thyroid gland"

-- Dr. A. K. Susheela, a leading fluoride expert, explains in a video why US physicians overlook fluoride as a possible cause of diseases commonly caused by fluoride. http://tinyurl.com/Susheela

References:

(1) National Kidney Foundation, “Fluoride Intake in Chronic Kidney Disease,” April 15, 2008

http://www.kidney.org/atoz/pdf/Fluoride_...

(2) "Adding fluoride to water supplies," British Medical Journal, KK Cheng, Iain Chalmers, Trevor A. Sheldon, October 6, 2007

For more info:
Fluoridation 101
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof

Fluoride Health Effects
http://www.FluorideAction.Net/health

On Editorial: Reduce, don't eliminate, fluoride in Sch'dy water

Posted on December 7 at 9:05 a.m. (Suggest removal)

The water is even more damaging if it contains fluoride. The American Dental Association, the Centers for Disease Control and the Academy of General Dentistry all advise that concentrated infant formula should NOT be mixed with fluoridated water. This puts babies at high risk of developing dental fluorosis - yellow discolored teeth which is the body's outward warning that too much fluoride was ingested. Unseen is the damage fluoride ingestion causes to bones, thyroid and kidney function. Also, over 20 studies done in other countries link low level fluoride ingestion to lowered IQ

Since fluoride is neither a nutrient nor required for healthy teeth, there is no harm from avoiding it.

See http://www.fluorideaction.net/health

Fluoride should be removed from all water supplies immediately, If parents don't know that they shouldn't super-dilute infant formula, they certainly are unaware of the danger to their babies that fluoridated tap water delivers. Obviously, we can't trust our health departments and legislators to properly inform people - because they already havn't done so even though researchers told them to do so before the year 2000 and after.

Take action to stop fluoridation here: http://congress.fluorideaction.net

Fluoridation 101
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof

On Watering down baby formula not a safe way to save money

Posted on June 24 at 7:43 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I think the expiration date is just there so people will assume it's outdated and buy some more. Sounds like good marketing to me.

Most people don't know that fluoridated toothpaste is a drug and like all drug it has side effects. Even though it's not swallowed some gets absorbed into your blood stream through the mouth and some gets involuntarily swallowed.

On My fluoride is fading

Posted on June 18 at 6:46 a.m. (Suggest removal)

The National Kidney Foundation told the American Dental Association to take it's name off of their dubious list of fluoridation supporters because fluoride in water supplies is potentially harmful to all kidney patients, not just those on dialysis, and can cause fluoride-induced bone damage.

Three cheers for those who voted against fluoridation. You are truly serving your constituents and not the dental societies who really should be mandated to treat more Medicaid patients and low-income New Yorkers.

Only 25% of NYS dentists accept Medicaid. Children in this country are dying from untreated tooth decay.

Unfortunately, there's no special interest group approaching legislators with this obviously required mandate. Fluoridation gives the illusion that organized dentistry gives a hoot about low income New Yorkers. If they truly cared, they would be filling their cavities. Instead many have to wait until their teeth rot enough to be pulled in a hospital emergency room at taxpayer expense

Let's keep the fluordating dentists away from our water once and for all join the 12,000 individuals and over 1,700 professionals urging Congress to stop fluoridation nation-wide and hold hearings to hold officials accountable for promoting fluoridation in the face of growing scientific evidence of harm
here:

http://congress.FluorideAction.Net

for more info
http://www.FluorideAction.Net

Fluoridation 101
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof

On Village rejects move toward dissolution

Posted on June 6 at 5:51 a.m. (Suggest removal)

The real solution that everyone knows about but doesn't have the political will to introduce into legislation is that dentists must be mandated to treat Medicaid patients. They also must treat those who don't qualify for Medicaid but without insurance on a sliding scale basis. They must allow patients to make payments over time or work on a barter system. They shouldn't be allowed to force patients to take out a loan before they will agree to work on them.

If NYS's overpaid but under worked dentists refuse, we must create a new dental professional to fill the dentist-void as other countries Do. NYS can do what Alaska and other states are looking into. Dental therapists are two or three year trained individuals who will drill, fill and pull teeth in mouths and geographical areas dentists refuse to go

Organized dentistry's only solution to the growing dental health crisis is to give dentists more money to do what they should be doing in the first place.

On Editorials: A dental law with little bite

Posted on May 22 at 12:34 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Fluoride is Damaging Kids Self-Esteem

Fluoride exposure is rising and causing children’s tooth imperfections, ranging from white spots to brownish discolorations and pitting (fluorosis), dentist Elivir Dincer reports in the New York State Dental Journal. (1)

“Such changes in the tooth’s appearance can affect the child’s self-esteem which makes early prevention that much more critical,” writes Dincer.

Children, aged 2 to 7 years, can swallow about one-quarter milligram of fluoride with every brushing because their swallowing reflexes are not fully developed, reports Dincer.

“Children from the age of 6-months to 3-years should not have more than one-quarter milligram of fluoride per day. Brushing the teeth of a 2-year-old twice a day will expose the child to about one-half milligram, exceeding the allowable [daily] limits” [from toothpaste alone], writes Dincer.

Intentionally swallowing the toothpaste which is likely, given the pleasant flavor of children’s toothpaste, increases children’s fluorosis risk, Dincer reports.

Fluoridated water, supplements, mouth rinses and/or foods add to daily fluoride intake.

Up to 48% of children have fluorosis, with 4% moderate/severe (yellow/brown teeth), reports the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) (2). Fluoride over-exposure at ages 22- to 25-months can discolor the permanent two front teeth while they form under the gums.

Two-thirds of US water suppliers add fluoride chemicals to reduce tooth decay. This fluoridated water is used to make many foods and beverages. (3) “Water and processed beverages (e.g., soft drinks and fruit juices) can provide approximately 75% of a person's fluoride intake,” according to the CDC. (4)

Mixing infant formula with fluoridated water (5), fluoride supplements (6) and foods with naturally higher fluoride levels, such as tea and ocean fish, independently increase risk of dental fluorosis. Fluoride-containing pesticide residues remain on various foods. Fluoride is also inhaled via ocean and shower mist and is in some medicines.

The adequate intake of fluoride from ALL sources to avoid moderate fluorosis (not mild white spots) according to the National Academies of Science (9) is

-- 0.01 mg/day for 0 to 6-month-olds
-- 0.5 mg/day for 7 through 12 months
-- 0.7 mg/day for 1 to 3-year-olds

Why isn't this information reaching the public?

In 2000, dental researcher AK Mascarenhas wrote, “There is substantial evidence that fluoridated water, fluoride supplements, infant formulas, and fluoride toothpastes are risk factors for fluorosis,” alone and together in “Risk factors for Dental Fluorosis: A review of the recent literature,” in Pediatric Dentistry, 4/22/2000.

References: http://tinyurl.com/6kqtu

On Cobleskill to keep fluoride out of village water

Posted on February 8 at 7:54 a.m. (Suggest removal)

According to NYS Department of Health statistics, fluoridated NYS counties do not have less tooth decay and fluoridation has not leveled out cavity rates between haves and have-nots. See chart here: http://www.freewebs.com/fluoridation/cha...

No child is, or ever was, fluoride deficient. However, many are dentist-deficient. 80% of dentists refuse Medicaid patients and 108 million Americans don't have dental insurance.

A 12-year-old boy, living in a fluoridated community died because no dentist would treat his tooth decay.
He wound up in a hospital emergency room with a tooth abscess that traveled to his brain.

In New York City, fluoridated since 1965, more children required cavity-related hospitalizations, proportionately, than two of New York State's largest non-fluoridated counties, Suffolk and Nassau (Long island) whether payment was made by Medicaid or privately, according to a NYS Dep't of Health report.
Fluoride is not a substitute for dental care.

The first experimental city to add fluoride chemicals
into the drinking water to find out if it made residents sick was conducted in Newburgh, NY, in 1945.

Recent studies show that Newburgh children have more cavities and more fluoride discolored teeth than children in never-fluoridated Kingston, NY which was the control-city in the experiment.

On Long Island: (Nassau & Suffolk Counties)

Levittowners voted out 29 years of water fluoridation in 1983. Carle Place and the Nassau communities bordering NYC followed in 1996. The Suffolk County Legislature voted down their Health Commissioner’s fluoridation plan in 1991. Now Long Island is fluoridation-free yet enjoys a lower cavity rate than most fluoridated NYS counties and NYS, as a whole, which is 73% fluoridated.

The Centers for Disease Control reports that fluoride does not have to be swallowed to be effective. In fact, they say ingesting fluoride confers little, if any benefit. The CDC says fluoride's benefits are topical. So there really is no good reason to add fluoride into water supplies unless you advise people to gargle with it but never swallow.

More Evidence that Fluoridation Fails New York State

http://www.freewebs.com/fluoridation/flu...

For more information:
New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc.
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof

Fluoridation News Releases
http://tinyurl.com/6kqtu

Tooth Decay Crises in Fluoridated Areas
http://www.fluoridenews.blogspot.com/

Fluoride Action Network http://www.FluorideAction.Net

Fluoride Journal http://www.FluorideResearch.Org

On Officials considering removal of fluoride from Schenectady water