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2010-05-01T09:35:00.001-04:00

Limit Fluoride to Prevent Lead Poisoning, study says

– Fluoride chemicals added to public water supplies, boosts lead absorption in lab animals’ bones, teeth and blood, report Sawan, et al. (Toxicology 2/2010). Earlier studies already show children’s blood-lead-levels are higher in fluoridated communities, reports Sawan’s research team.

“…exposure to increased amounts of lead and fluoride occurs at about the same age (1-3 years)… Therefore, this is a critical time when systemic exposure to fluoride should be minimized since fluoride may increase lead accumulation,” the researchers caution.

Low-level lead exposure is associated with lower IQ, ADHD and many health and behavior ailments.

NSF International is a private company that regulates public water supply additives. February 2008 NSF reported that 2% of the 245 fluoridation chemicals sampled from 2000 to 2006 had detectable levels of Lead. (There are approximately 155,000 US public water supplies.) Lead is an allowable trace contaminant in fluoridation chemicals along with antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, copper, mercury, selenium, and thallium. See:

http://www.nsf.org/business/water_distribution/pdf/NSF_Fact_Sheet.pdf

Sawan’s team put fluosilicic acid, with and without lead, into lab animals’ drinking water. They found more lead in tooth enamel, surface bone, whole bone, and tooth dentine in rats co-exposed to fluoride and lead.

Possibly anticipating criticism that rats were fed higher fluoride-concentrated water than people drink, the authors write, “this concentration was chosen because it produces plasma fluoride levels that are comparable with those commonly found in humans…”

Increased prevalence and severity of fluoride-discolored teeth (fluorosis) proves US children are already fluoride-overexposed "which may cause their blood-lead levels to increase and produce more lead toxicity,” they write.

“These findings suggest that a biological effect, not recognized so far, may underlie the epidemiological association between increased blood-lead levels in children and water fluoridation,” concludes Sawan’s research team.

“[O]ur findings may have serious implications for populations exposed to increased amounts of both lead and fluoride, particularly young children,” the research team writes.

Attorney Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation (NYSCOF) says, “People need to lobby and petition their legislators to stop fluoridation in their towns, cities and states. Legislators are ignoring the science proving fluoridation is endangering our health, our water supplies and wasting tax dollars while denying freedom of choice.” (see: http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/sitemap.html )

Masters and Coplan’s landmark studies show higher blood-lead-levels in children living in silico-fluoridated communities (Neurotoxicology 2000, 2007). Macek’s research shows children’s higher blood-lead-levels are associated with water fluoridation when lead is already in the environment (Environmental Health Perspectives, 2006).

Some fluoridation chemicals originate in China, Mexico and Japan, reports the CDC. ABC-TV Boston reported that a Massachusetts city was forced to discontinue fluoridation because Chinese fluoridation chemicals were clogging up the water system with an unidentifiable contaminant.

New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc

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

http://www.FluorideAction.Net

2010-01-26T03:02:00.001-05:00

It's Time to Retire Fluoridation

New York - January 25 2010 -- Sixty-five years ago, sodium fluoride powder was slowly poured into Grand Rapids, Michigan's public water supply to see if drinking fluoridated water (fluoridation) really safely reduced children's tooth decay. Nearby Muskegon was left fluoridation-free, for only 5 years, as the experiment's control city for comparison purposes even though evaluations were made after 15 years. (1)

Before then, sodium fluoride was mainly used as a rat poison.

The study failed and was seriously flawed; but early over-zealous fluoridationists ignored this inconvenient

truth. Fluoridation was declared a success, anyway (2) and spread across the country and the world based on positive-spun PR but invalid science.

So what's happening today?

Grand Rapids children have high rates of tooth decay and fluoride overdose - dental fluorosis, white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted enamel.(3)

According to the Grand Rapids Press, one pediatric dentist said in 2007 "...we see children under the age of 2 with active decay...Rather than just a few cavities, we're seeing a lot of cavities. It's not unusual to see a child with 8 to 10 cavities." (4)

Despite 65 years of water fluoridation reaching 70% of Americans on public water supplies and virtually 100% via the food supply and despite 55 years of fluoridated toothpaste, tooth decay has increased in our most fluoridated population - toddlers - and UNtreated tooth decay has risen, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). (5) Incredibly, American children have died from the consequences of untreated tooth decay. (5a) with up to 48% of US school children now sporting dental fluorosis, according to the CDC.

Today sodium fluoride is purchased from China and something's wrong with it. Water engineers complain it's clogging up their systems (6)

Fluoridation opposition is scientific, respectable and growing.

Over 2,700 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.august.2007.html

Also, eleven Environmental Protection Agency employee unions representing over 7000 environmental and public health professionals called for a moratorium on drinking water fluoridation programs across the country, and have asked EPA management to recognize fluoride as posing a serious risk of causing cancer in people.

Approximately, 80 US communities rejected fluoridation in 2008 & 2009 (7).

References:

1) Grand Rapids fluoridation Study - Results Pertaining to the

Eleventh Year of Fluoridation, by Francis A Arnold ,American Journal of Public Health, May 1957 "In making comparisons on these data it should be remembered that Muskegon started fluoridation in July 1951" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1551218/pdf/amjphnation01088-0018.pdf

2) Fluoridation: Errors and Omissions in Experimental Trials [Chapters
19, 20 and 21. Philip Sutton. Originally published in 1960]

3) "Some babies get too much fluoride," The Grand Rapids Press, by Morgan Jarema October 09, 2007 http://www.fluoridealert.org/news/3091.html

4) "Protecting kids' teeth includes trips to the dentist," The Grand Rapids Press, by Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood, June 19, 2007

5) "Tooth Decay In American Preschool Kids On The Rise"
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/07newsreleases/oralhealth.htm

5a) "For Want of a Dentist Pr. George's Boy Dies After Bacteria From Tooth Spread to Brain," Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/27/AR2007022702116.html
and
http://www.pedidental.org/pdfs/PDI%20Holiday%20Newsletter.pdf

6) "Feds Note Fluoride Problem," January 25, 2010
http://www.newburyportnews.com/punews/local_story_024222057.html

7) http://www.FluorideAction.Net/communities.htm

2009-11-20T06:00:00.002-05:00

Study Links Fluoride to Premature Births

State University of New York (SUNY) researchers found more premature births in fluoridated than non-fluoridated upstate New York communities, according to a presentation made at the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting on November 9, 2009 in Philadelphia. (1)

Fluoridation is the addition of fluoride chemicals into public water supplies ostensibly to prevent tooth decay. Many groups oppose fluoridation because of its scientifically-documented health risks. (2)

Human pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks or just more than 9 months. A baby born before 37 weeks of pregnancy is considered a preterm (or premature) birth. About 12 percent of US pregnancies are preterm and this is one of the top causes of infant death in the US, according to the US National Institutes of Health. (3)

The SUNY researchers used 1993-2002 data from the NY Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS), which collects patient characteristics, diagnoses, treatments, services and charges for every hospital discharge, ambulatory surgery patient and emergency department admission in New York State. They recorded fluoridation residence status (under or over 1 milligram fluoride per Liter of water) and adjusted for age, race/ethnicity, neighborhood poverty level, hypertension and diabetes.

“Domestic water fluoridation was associated with an increased risk of PTB [preterm birth]. This relationship was most pronounced among women in the lowest SES [socio-economic-status] groups (>10% poverty) and those of non-white racial origin,” write Rachel Hart, et al. Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, SUNY School of Public Health.

Previous published research by others has shown that fluoride can interfere with the reproductive system. (4)

“It would be wise to follow the lead of the 7,000 Environmental Protection Agency scientists and public health professionals (5) who asked Congress to place a moratorium on fluoridation until definitive studies are conducted to prove fluoridation is safe for every human consuming it,” says attorney Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. “Clearly fluoridation is not safe for everyone," says Beeber.

At the request of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a National Research Council (NRC) panel of experts reviewed current fluoride toxicology. In 2006 they concluded that the maximum amount of fluoride allowed in drinking water is too high to be protective of health. At least three NRC panel members believe water fluoride levels should be as close to zero as possible. The EPA has yet to perform a fluoride risk assessment based on the NRC's findings leaving millions of Americans at risk of fluoride's adverse health effects.

According to Dr. Bill Hirzy, Chair of American University’s Chemistry Department and former EPA scientist from 1981 to 2008, the EPA fears “setting a maximum contaminant level goal of zero because that would mean the EPA is going to be responsible for the end of the water fluoridation program. EPA knows that there will be enormous political flak for doing that.” (6)

SOURCE: New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc (NYSCOF)
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof

Follow NYSCOF on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nyscof

Previous News Releases: http://tinyurl.com/NewsReleases

References:

1) 197468 Relationship between municipal water fluoridation and preterm birth in Upstate New York Rachel Hart, BA, MPH, et al. Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York, Rensselaer, NY

http://apha.confex.com/apha/137am/webprogram/Paper197468.html

(2) Fluoride Action Network – Health Effects Database
http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/sitemap.html

(3) National Institutes of Health, “Preterm Labor and Birth,”

http://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/Preterm_Labor_and_Birth.cfm

(4) Fluoride Action Network - HEALTH EFFECTS: Fluoride & the Reproductive System http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/repro/index.html

(5) Why EPA Headquarters Union of Scientists Opposes Fluoridation

http://nteu280.org/Issues/Fluoride/NTEU280-Fluoride.htm

(6) The Eagle, “Hirzy: EPA drags feet on fluoride.” by Howie Perlman, October 28, 2009
http://www.theeagleonline.com/news/story/hirzy-epa-drags-feet-on-flouride

2009-06-15T05:17:00.002-04:00

Another Study Links Fluoride to Bone Cancer

New York – May 2009 -- Blood fluoride levels were significantly higher in patients with osteosarcoma than in control groups, according to research published in Biological Trace Element Research (April 2009). Osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer, occurs mostly in children and young adults

Sandhu and colleagues measured serum fluoride levels in three equal groups of age-matched and sex-matched patients. Group one had osteosarcoma; group two had non-osteosarcoma bone tumors; and group three had musculo-skeletal pain. (1)

“Mean serum fluoride concentration was found to be significantly higher in patients with osteosarcoma as compared to the other two groups,” write Sandhu’s team. “(T)his report proves a link between raised fluoride levels in serum and osteosarcoma,” they write.

This reinforces a 2006 published Harvard study by Bassin showing a link between water fluoridation and osteosarcoma in young boys. (2)

A 1992 New Jersey Department of Health study shows osteosarcoma rates higher among young males in fluoridated vs. unfluoridated regions of New Jersey. (3)

More studies link fluoride to bone and other cancers but are downplayed or ignored by government officials. (4)(5)

Bone defects similar to bone cancer were detected in fluoridated Newburgh NY children as early as 1955. Newburgh is home of the first human health fluoridation experiment begun in 1945.

According to Christopher Bryson in The Fluoride Deception. “A radiologist, Dr. John Caffey of Columbia University, called the defects ‘striking’ in their ‘similarity’ to bone cancer… and seen more than twice as frequently among boys in Newburgh as among boys in nonfluoridated Kingston [the control city].” (6)

In 2006, the prestigious National Research Council review of fluoride/fluoridation toxicology found a fluoride/bone cancer link plausible.

“If governments truly want to save money, stopping fluoridation is a no-brainer. It would save money, preserve health and teeth,” says attorney Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation.

In 2005, 11 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employee unions, representing over 7000 environmental and public health professionals called for a moratorium on fluoridation programs across the country and asked EPA management to recognize fluoride as posing a serious risk of causing cancer in people. (7)

In addition, over 2,440 professionals urge the US Congress to stop 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.fluoridealert.org/statement.august.2007.html

Tell Congress to Stop Fluoridation : http://congress.FluorideAction.Net

References:

1) Biological Trace Element Research, “Serum Fluoride and Sialic Acid Levels in Osteosarcoma,” by Sandhu R, Lal H, Kundu ZS, Kharb S, Apr 24, 2009 [Epub ahead of print]

2) Cancer Causes Control "Age-specific fluoride exposure in drinking water and
osteosarcoma (United States), by Bassin et al., May 2006

3) New Jersey Department of Health, “A Brief Report On The Association Of Drinking Water Fluoridation And The Incidence of Osteosarcoma Among Young Males,” Cohn PD. (1992).

4) Fluoride and Osteosarcoma

http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/cancer/osteosarcoma-timeline.html

5) Fluoride and Cancer

http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/cancer/

6) The Fluoride Deception, by Christopher Bryson
with a foreword by Dr. Theo Colborn, Seven Stories Press,
May 2004

http://www.fluoridealert.org/fluoride-deception.htm

7) Press Release August 19, 2005, “EPA Unions Call for Nationwide Moratorium on Fluoridation, Congressional Hearing on Adverse Effects, Youth Cancer Cover Up,” Contact: Dr. William Hirzy, Vice-President NTEU Chapter 280

http://www.nteu280.org/Issues/Fluoride/Press%20Release.%20Fluoride.htm

New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc

PO Box 263

Old Bethpage, NY 11804

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

http://www.FluorideAction.Net

Past News Releases

http://tinyurl.com/NewsReleases

2009-03-25T07:11:00.001-04:00

Officials Lie About Fluoridation Safety

The American Public Health Association’s (APHA) new Fluoridation Position Statement is based on many documents that neither support nor evaluate fluoridation’s safety and/or effectiveness as it claims (1).

APHA asserts, “All of these reviews have found CWF [Community Water Fluoridation] to be safe and effective.” Here’s the truth about APHA’s “supportive” references:

National Research Council (2006)

This isn’t a fluoridation risk/benefit analysis. It found EPA’s current fluoride maximum-contaminant-level-goal for drinking water is not protective of health and must be lowered. (2)

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (2003)

This report says "… subsets of the population may be unusually susceptible to the toxic effects of fluoride and its compounds…the elderly, people with osteoporosis, people with deficiencies of calcium, magnesium, vitamin C, and/or protein." (3)

University of York, UK (2000)

About this report, the Centre for Review and Dissemination writes “We were unable to discover any reliable good-quality evidence in the fluoridation literature world-wide.” (4)

Lewis and Banting, Canada (1994)

“The effectiveness of water fluoridation alone cannot now be determined,” they write. (5)

New York State Department of Health (1990)

The authors concluded: “… some individuals may experience hypersensitivity to fluoride-containing agents.” And, “…it is currently impossible to draw firm conclusions regarding the independent effect of fluoride in drinking water on caries prevalence using an ecologic study design.” (6)

World Health Organization (2006)

This report, not about fluoridation, documents high levels of natural fluoride causing human bone and teeth malformation in many countries. (7)

Medical Research Council, UK (2002)

This report, not a fluoridation risk/benefit analysis, identifies fluoridation health uncertainties such as total exposure and bone effects. (8)

Institute of Medicine (1999)

Since fluoride is not a nutrient, this report set the adequate intake from all sources to avoid children’s moderate dental fluorosis (discolored teeth) and, also, the upper limit to avoid crippling bone damage -- which the IOM admits “is too high for persons with certain illnesses…” (9)

While APHA says that fluoridation reduced the incidence and severity of tooth decay, ”No clear reasons for the caries decline have been identified,” according to dental textbook, Dentistry, Dental Practice, and the Community (Burt and Eklund).

“Why is the APHA misrepresenting these documents and not publicizing fluoridation’s health risks and uncertainties, therefore, protecting fluoridation instead of the American public?” asks attorney Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc.

Over 2,200 professionals urge Congress to stop fluoridation. Join them at http://congress.FluorideAction.Net

References:

1) American Public Health Association Oral Health Section Newsletter, Winter 2009

http://www.apha.org/membergroups/newsletters/sectionnewsletters/oral/winter09/

2) “Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of

EPA's Standards,”

Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water, National

Research Council, Executive Summary, 2006

http://www.nap.edu/nap-cgi/report.cgi?record_id=11571&type=pdfxsum

3) US Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Toxicological Profile for Fluorides, Hydrogen Fluordie, and Fluorine, (2003) http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp11.pdf

4) “What the 'York Review' on the fluoridation of drinking water really found,” October 28 2003,A statement from the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/fluoridnew.htm

5) Lewis DW, Banting DW. Water fluoridation: current effectiveness and dental fluorosis. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 1994;22:153–158 http://tinyurl.com/bhtlkq

6). Kaminsky LS, Mahoney MC, Leach J, Melius J, Miller MJ. Fluoride: benefits and risks of exposure. Crit Rev Oral Biol Med. 1990;1:261–281 http://crobm.iadrjournals.org/cgi/reprint/1/4/261

7) World Health Organization, “New WHO report tackles fluoride in drinking-water,” November 2006 http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/new/2006/nw04/en/index.html
8). Medical Research Council. Medical Research Council Working Group Report: Water Fluoridation and Health. September 2002. www.mrc.ac.uk/Utilities/Documentrecord/index.htm?d=MRC002482

9) Institute of Medicine, Food and Nutrition Board. Fluoride: Background Information. Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Vitamin D and Fluoride. Report of the Standing Committee on the Scientific Evaluation of Dietary Reference Intakes. Washington, DC:http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309063507

2008-10-02T07:55:00.000-04:00

Fluoridation and Tea DO NOT MIX, Studies Continue to Show

Fluoridation puts tea drinkers at risk of damaged bones, discolored teeth and soft tissue harm, studies show.

Tea has naturally high fluoride levels. Excess fluoride can weaken bones and discolor children’s un-erupted teeth. When fluoridated water is used to make tea, fluoride levels consumed can be health damaging.

Four cups, of 20 teas sampled, delivered 0.8 to 1.8 mg of fluoride, when non-fluoridated water was used, reports Cao et al. in Food Chemistry.

“Among populations habitually consuming black tea, water fluoridation is not only unnecessary but also possibly harmful…The target organs of chronic fluoride intoxication are not only the teeth and skeleton, but also the liver, kidney, nervous and reproductive systems,” they write.

A March 2008 Food and Chemical Toxicology study found up to 4.5, 1.8, and 0.5 mg/L fluoride in black, green and white teas, respectively, when brewed for 5 minutes (61 teas sampled).

Brewed teas could contain up to 6 mg/L fluoride depending on the amount of dry tea used, the water fluoride concentration and the brewing time, according to the American Dental Association (ADA).

According to 1997 ADA data, 3 and 4 milligrams daily is adequate for women and men, respectively, to prevent fluoride’s adverse effects. It’s much lower for children. In 2006, the National Research Council reported the basis for those levels should be reduced.

Case Reports by Cao and Yi in the Journal of Fluorine Chemistry (February 2008) “Tea and fluorosis:”

--A 57-year-old Englishman’s misdiagnosed Paget’s disease (weakened bones) with osteoarthritis was finally correctly diagnosed as skeletal fluorosis caused by his long-term heavy tea-drinking habit.

--A Pakistani woman’s dental fluorosis resulted solely from tea which she consumed from age two.

--A 36-year-old Chinese woman’s ten-years of joint pain disappeared when she stopped drinking tea.

--French doctors identified 5 patients who developed bone softening (osteomalacia) from drinking tea.

-- An American woman's fluoride-caused debilitating joint pains disappeared when her two-gallon-a-day iced-tea habit stopped.

"By 2020, one in two Americans over age 50 will be at risk for fractures from osteoporosis or low bone mass," according to the Surgeon General.

“It’s clear that fluoridation is increasing Americans’ bone damage. Presidential candidates must pledge to stop water fluoridation if they truly care about individuals and not fluoridation-supporting special interest groups such as the American Dental Association,” says attorney Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc.

Fluoride is in many foods as determined by the USDA http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=6312

According to American Dental Association, the adequate intake of fluoride to avoid moderate fluorosis (yellow teeth) 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
-- 1.0 mg/day for 4 to 8-year-olds

Mild fluorosis is white spots, lines or blotches to the teeth and can occur at levels lower than the above.

The CDC reports that fluorosis afflicts up to 48% of US school children - 4% of it severe.

Both the ADA and CDC advise that infant formula should not be mixed with fluoridated water.

New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation

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

http://www.FluorideAction.Net

Past News Releases: http://tinyurl.com/NewsReleases

References:

Food Chemistry, "Safety evaluation on fluoride content in black tea," by Cao et al. (November 2004)

Food Chemical Toxicology, "Assessment of fluoride concentration and daily intake by human from tea and herbal infusions," by Malinowska et al. (March 2008)

Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, "Tea and fluorosis," by Juan Yi and Jin Cao (February 2008)

2008-05-22T06:40:00.002-04:00

Fluoride Damages the Thyroid, report shows

There is clear evidence that small amounts of fluoride, at or near levels added to U.S. water supplies, present potential risks to the thyroid gland, according to the National Research Council’s (NRC) first-ever published review of the fluoride/thyroid literature.(A)

Fluoride, in the form of silicofluorides, injected into 2/3 of U.S. public water supplies, ostensibly to reduce tooth decay, was never safety-tested.(B)

“Many Americans are exposed to fluoride in the ranges associated with thyroid effects, especially for people with iodine deficiency,” says 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.

“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.(C)

Common thyroid symptoms include fatigue, weight gain, constipation, fuzzy thinking, low blood pressure, fluid retention, depression, body pain, slow reflexes, and more. It’s estimated that 59 million Americans have thyroid conditions.(D)

Robert Carton, PhD, an environmental scientist who worked for over 30 years for the U.S. government including managing risk assessments on high priority toxic chemicals, says “fluoride has detrimental effects on the thyroid gland of healthy males at 3.5 mg a day. With iodine deficiency, the effect level drops to 0.7 milligrams/day for an average male.”(E) (1.0 mg/L fluoride is in most water supplies)

Among many others, the NRC Report cites human studies which show

- fluoride concentrations in thyroids exceeding that found in other soft tissues except kidney

- an association between endemic goiter and fluoride exposure or enamel fluorosis in human populations

- fluoride adversely affects thyroid and parathyroid hormones, which affect bone health

“If you have a thyroid problem, avoiding fluoride may be a good preventive health measure for you,” writes Drs’ Richard and Karilee Shames in “Thyroid Power.”(F).

Over, 1700 Physicians, Dentists, Scientists, Academics and Environmentalists urge Congress to stop water fluoridation until Congressional hearings are conducted. They cite new scientific evidence that fluoridation is ineffective and has serious health risks. (http://www.fluorideaction.org/statement.august.2007.html)

Scientific American quotes John Doull, professor emeritus of pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, who chaired the NRC committee thusly, “The thyroid changes do worry me.”

“Fluoride can harm bones, teeth, kidneys, the brain and more,” says lawyer Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation. "It's time to stop fluoridation."

Eleven environmental protection agency employee unions, representing over 7000 environmental and public health professionals , called for a halt on drinking water fluoridation programs across the USA and asked EPA management to recognize fluoride as posing a serious risk of causing cancer in people.

You can support this professionals' statement and our EPA scientists by petitioning your representatives here:
http://congress.fluorideaction.net

References:

(A) "Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA's Standards," Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies of Science. March 2006 Chapter 8

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11571

"Thyroid Function: Fluoride exposure in humans is associated with elevated TSH concentrations, increased goiter prevalence, and altered T4 and T3 concentrations." (Page 262)

"(The thyroid effects are associated with average fluoride intakes that) will be reached by persons with average exposures at fluoride concentrations of 1-4 mg/L in drinking water, especially the children." (Page 260)

(B) Sodium Hexafluorosilicate and Fluorosilicic Acid

Review of Toxicological Literature, October 2001

http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/htdocs/Chem_Background/ExSumPDF/Fluorosilicates.pdf

(C) Chemical & Engineering News, “Fluoride Risks Are Still A Challenge,” by Bette Hileman, September 4, 2006,

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/government/84/8436gov1.html

(D) Mary Shomon, About.com Thyroid editor, Patient Advocate -- Author of "The Thyroid Diet" and "Living Well With Hypothyroidism"

http://thyroid.about.com/

(E) Fluoride, “Review of the 2006 National Research Council Report: Fluoride in Drinking Water,” July-September 2006, by Robert J. Carton

http://www.fluorideresearch.org/393/files/FJ2006_v39_n3_p163-172.pdf

(F) Thyroid Power and Feeling Fat Fuzzy or Frazzeled“by Richard Shames MD & Karilee Shames RN, PhD http://www.thyroidpower.com http://www.feelingfff.com/

Fluoride/Thyroid Health Effects

http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/thyroid/

Sources of Fluoride

http://www.fluoridealert.org/f-sources.htm

Sulfuryl Fluoride Pesticide Residues Allowed on Foods

http://www.fluoridealert.org/pesticides/sulfuryl.f.all.food.html

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Fluoride Database of Selected Beverages and Foods
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/Fluoride/Fluoride.html

2008-02-20T17:16:00.001-05:00

More Tooth Decay in Poor Children; Fluoridation No Help

"Caries experience may be associated with income,” reports the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Low income, not fluoridation deficiency, predicts more cavities is revealed in statistics posted on the CDC’s website (1).

Those states reporting third-graders cavity rates and children living below the federal poverty level indicate that poor children have more cavities – even when water is fluoridated. And, the states with the highest rates of fluoridation don’t have the lowest cavity rates. For example, CDC statistics show that:

Despite a 60% fluoridation rate, Arkansas has the most third-graders suffering with tooth decay (72%) and the highest number of poor children (45%)

Oklahoma third-graders endure the second worst cavity rate (69%) even though 3/4 of the state is fluoridated. But 41% are poor, the second poorest state on the CDC’s list.

Similarly, 89% fluoridated South Dakota reveals the third worst decay rate (68%) where 41% are poor.

At the low end:

Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont third-graders have the least decay – 49%, 45% and 44%, respectively, and the smallest amount of poor children (26%, 32% and 31%), Fluoridation rates: 63%, 75%, and 54%, respectively.

Additionally, the CDC reports that, while fluoridation numbers improved, cavity experience in two – four-year-olds got worse. (9)

Healthy people have healthy teeth. Ten of the twelve least healthiest (10) states as reported by the United Health Foundation have the most toothless populations (11) when compared to CDC statistics, even though most of those states are heavily fluoridated (12).

“The cavity-prone and toothless are not fluoride-deficient; but are fluoride overdosed. Poor health and/or low income predicts tooth decay,” says lawyer Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation. “Fluoridation is a waste of money and is no substitute for a healthy diet and dental care,” says Beeber..

Water engineers dispense fluoride chemicals into 2/3 of Americans via their water supply attempting to prevent tooth decay. However, in the United Kingdom, where only 10% drink fluoridated water, tooth decay rates are equal too or better than those of the U.S.(2) and have declined over the last ten years.(3)

In contrast, U.S. cavity rates increased (4) along with fluoride overdose symptoms, prompting some researchers to suggest that water fluoridation be stopped (5a,b).

In both the U.S. and U.K., lack of money and dental care predicts higher rates of tooth decay – regardless of fluoridation status (6a,b).

By neglecting the poor, organized dentistry helped create an oral health epidemic.(7) Promoting fluoridation may deflect government regulators from forcing dentists to treat poor children.(8) .

Take Action to End Fluoridation: http://www.FluorideAction.Net/congress

References:
(1) http://www2.cdc.gov/nohss/IndicatorV.asp?Indicator=2&OrderBy=2
(2) U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Oral Health: Preventing Cavities, Gum Disease Disease, and Oral Cancers At A Glance 1004 http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/aag/aag_oh.htm
(3) National Statistics “Dentinal Decay Children's permanent teeth better than ever” http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=973
(4) Wall Street Journal http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/03/08/financial1058EST0079.DTL
(5a) “A Quantitative Look at Fluorosis and Fluoride Exposure and Intake of Children Using a Health Risk Assessment Approach,” Environmental Health Perspectives, by Serap Erdal1 and Susan N. Buchanan2, Online 14 September 2004 http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2004/7077/7077.pdf
(5b) http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof/_pgg8.php3
(6a) http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof2/_pgg6.php3
(6b) Inequalities in children’s caries experience: the nature and size of the UK problem,” by Nigel B. Pitts, Dental Health Services Research Unit, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK http://www.dundee.ac.uk/dhsru/cdh/supp151/#2
(7) “FIRST-EVER SURGEON GENERAL'S REPORT ON ORAL HEALTH FINDS PROFOUND DISPARITIES IN NATION'S POPULATION,” News Release, May 2000, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/news/pressreleases/pr_oral_52000.htm
(8) Oregon Dental Association newsletter, April 2004, Volume 9, Number 11 (Page 6) http://www.oregondental.org/oda/section.cfm?wSectionID=1277
(9) Oral Health Progress Review 3/17/04 http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ppt/hpdata2010/focusareas/fa21.ppt (slide 5)
(10) United Health Foundation “2004 Overall State Health Rankings” http://www.unitedhealthfoundation.org/shr2004/Findings.html
(11) CDC tooth loss rates by state http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5250a3.htm
(12) CDC’s 2004 Water Fluoridation Statistics By State http://www2.cdc.gov/nccdphp/doh/synopses/WaterFluoridationV.asp?Year=2004&submit1=+Go+

2007-10-22T18:57:00.002-04:00

2007-10-22T18:57:00.001-04:00

2007-09-06T07:48:00.000-04:00

ADA Distributing Misleading Information on Two ADA Distributing Misleading Information on Two Federal Fluoride Reports

NEW YORK -- The Fluoride Action Network (FAN) charges the American Dental Association (ADA) with
circulating false and misleading information in its newsletter (8/15) that expressed concern over professional "opposition to community water
fluoridation."(1)

ADA misrepresented important findings in the 2006 National Research Council (NRC)(2) report and trivialized the significance of the dental
fluorosis epidemic afflicting American children (CDC, 2005).

"We don't understand why the ADA won't deal honestly with the science that caused 600 professionals to urge fluoridation be ended,"(3) says Paul Connett, PhD, FAN Director.

The ADA says the NRC report is not relevant to water fluoridation, but, according to its website, made this statement before it had reviewed the
report. In March, 2006 it wrote: "Additional information will appear on ADA.org after the report has been reviewed"(4) but no further information
has appeared.

Connett says, "The ADA assessment is totally superficial, in contrast to statements from three NRC panel members who wrote important chapters in
the report."

Kathleen Thiessen, PhD says, "I have become increasingly convinced that deliberate exposure of a large fraction of the U.S. population ... to
uncontrolled and unmonitored intake of fluoride in their drinking water is unwise at best, and probably harmful to a substantial number of people."(5)

Hardy Limeback, PhD, DDS, writes, " ... it is obvious that the benefit of fluoridation is next to nil. ... I am even more convinced that fluoride
should be banned as a systemic drug (which includes water fluoridation)..."(6)

Robert L. Isaacson, PhD adds, "The health of the entire country is at risk as long as fluoridation of the drinking water remains uncurbed."(6)

The ADA claims that dental fluorosis, which now impacts 32% of American children, is "so slight that only trained professionals can notice it."

However, very mild fluorosis affects up to 25% of tooth surfaces and mild up to 50%(7). The CDC reports that 4% of children have moderate or severe
fluorosis(8), in which all tooth surfaces are affected, frequently with brown staining and sometimes pitting.

"These categories are easy to identify and can result in psychological harm," says Connett. "We urge citizens to sign the ONLINE MESSAGE calling
for an end to fluoridation and Congressional hearings at:

http://www.FluorideAction.net."
References:

(1)
http://www.ada.org/prof/resources/pubs/adanews/adanewsarticle.asp?articleid=2625

(2) http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11571

(3) http://www.fluoridealert.org/statement.august.2007.html

(4) http://www.ada.org/prof/resources/topics/fluoride_report_response.pdf

(5) http://www.fluoridealert.org/thiessen-letter.pdf

(6) http://www.fluorideaction.org/statement.quotes.aug.2007.pdf

(7) http://www.ada.org/public/topics/fluoride/facts/fluoridation_facts.pdf

(8) http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/figures/s403a1t23.gif

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

2007-07-23T07:28:00.000-04:00

New Fluoride Warning

New York – July 16, 2007 -- Fluoride supplements put children six and under at significant risk of permanently discolored teeth, according to a review of studies recently posted on the American Dental Association’s (ADA) web site in their new section, “evidence-based dentistry,” for dentists and their patients. (1)

Fluoride supplements, in graduating amounts up to 1 mg daily, are often prescribed to children who don’t drink fluoridated water, ostensibly to reduce tooth decay.

“This review confirmed that in non-fluoridated communities the use of fluoride supplements during the first 6 years of life is associated with a significant increase in the risk of developing dental fluorosis, write researchers Ismail & Bandekar and first published in Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, February 1999, (2) but posted to the ADA’s website July 2007.

Fluoride ingestion, once thought to reduce cavities, can lead to dental fluorosis – white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted tooth enamel. Modern science indicates fluoride absorbs into tooth enamel topically, primarily.(3)

Studies link dental fluorosis to children’s kidney damage (4) and bone fractures (5).

The ADA and Centers for Disease Control recently advised that fluoridated water should not be mixed into concentrated infant formula, in order to decrease dental fluorosis risk – now a growing U.S. problem. (6)

Never safety-tested by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration) (7), fluoride supplements do more harm than good.(8)

“While fluoride is proclaimed a significant cavity reducer, there is little, if any, science to support that," says lawyer Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation.

A National Institutes of Health 2001 news release supports Beeber's assertion: "... the (NIH) panel was disappointed in the overall quality of the clinical data that it reviewed. According to the panel, far too many studies were small, poorly described, or otherwise methodologically flawed." (9) Over 560 studies evaluated fluoride among those reviewed by the NIH Consensus Development Program panel for the Diagnosis and Management of Dental Caries.

Recent research shows that fluoridation delivers risks with little, if any, benefit.(10)

“Save money, save our health, save the planet. Stop fluoridation,” says Beeber.

References:

1) http://www.ada.org/prof/resources/ebd/reviews/fluoride_supplements.asp

2) "Fluoride supplements and fluorosis: a meta-analysis," Community Dentistry & Oral Epidemiology, 1999 Feb;27(1):48-56, by Ismail & Bandekar .

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=10086926

3) http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5014a1.htm

4) "Dose-effect relationship between drinking water fluoride levels and damage to liver and kidney functions in children," Environmental Research,2007 Jan;103(1):112-6. Epub 2006 Jul 10, by Xiong, et. al

http://tinyurl.com/34lj92

5) "Dental and Early-State Skeletal Fluorosis in Children Induced by Fluoride in Brick-Tea," Fluoride 2005;38(1):44–47 Cao, et. al

http://www.fluorideresearch.org/381/files/38144-47.pdf

6) http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/figures/s403a1t23.gif

7) http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2005/12/fluoride-never-fda-approved-for.html

8) "The case for eliminating the use of dietary fluoride supplements for young children," Journal of Public Health Dentistry, Fall 1999, by Burt

http://tinyurl.com/2bnoff

9) http://consensus.nih.gov/2001/2001DentalCaries115html.htm

10) "Community Water Fluoridation and Caries Prevention: A CriticalReview," Clinical Oral Investigations, by Pizzo et.al, 2007 Feb 27;
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/Pizzo-2007.pdf

2007-05-16T05:27:00.000-04:00

Fluoridation Doing More Harm Than Good, Studies Show

New York – May 2007 – Contrary to belief, fluoridation is damaging teeth with little cavity reduction, according to a review of recent studies reported in Clinical Oral Investigations.(1)

Pizzo and colleagues reviewed English-language fluoridation studies published from January 2001 to June 2006 and write, “Several epidemiological studies conducted in fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities suggest that [fluoridation] may be unnecessary for caries prevention…”

They also report that fluoride-damaged teeth spiked upwards to 51% from the 10-12% found over 60 years ago in “optimally” fluoridated communities. Dental fluorosis is white-spotted, yellow, brown-stained and/or pitted teeth.

Fluoridation began in 1945 when dentists thought that ingested fluoride incorporated into children’s developing tooth enamel to prevent cavities. However, Pizzo’s group reports that fluoride ingestion confers little, if any, benefit and fails to reduce oral health disparities in low-income Americans.

Also, any difference in fluoride tooth enamel surface concentration between fluoridated and low-fluoridated areas is minimal. And the relationship between higher enamel fluoride levels to less tooth decay was not found.

“Some risk of increasing fluorosis may be attributed to the ingestion of powdered infant formula reconstituted with fluoridated water… [and] foods and beverages processed in fluoridated areas… Furthermore, the use of dietary fluoride supplements during the first 6 years of life is associated with a significant increase in the risk of developing fluorosis,” they write.

Lawyer Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation says, “Recent news reports claiming fluoride-free bottled water caused the cavity increase trends in toddlers are implausible because rising fluorosis rates clearly indicate that children are over-fluoridated, not under-fluoridated.”

“There’s no dispute that too much fluoride damages teeth, actually making them more decay-prone. Research is indicated to see if fluoride is causing the cavity escalation,” says Beeber.

Some studies Pizzo reviewed focused on communities that stopped water fluoridation. “…after the cessation, caries prevalence did not rise, remained almost the same or even decreased further,” writes Pizzo’s group.

“In most European countries, where [water fluoridation] has never been adopted, a substantial decline [75%] in caries prevalence has been reported in the last decades,” they report.

To avoid dental fluorosis, the American Dental Association and the Centers for Disease Control advise against mixing concentrated infant formulas with fluoridated water.

“Fluoride is bone- and health-damaging as well,” says Beeber. (2)

In 1999, researchers found that children in Connersville, Indiana, consumed over recommended levels of fluoride even though their water supply wasn’t fluoridated. (3) Organized dentistry still successfully instigated fluoridation and the American Dental Association bragged about it, carelessly putting more Connersville children at risk of developing dental fluorosis. (4)

Reference:

1) "Community Water Fluoridation and Caries Prevention: A Critical Review," Clinical Oral Investigations, by Giuseppe Pizzo & Maria R. Piscopo & Ignazio Pizzo &
Giovanna Giuliana 2007 Feb 27; [Epub ahead of print]

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/Pizzo-2007.pdf

2) http://fluoridealert.org/health/epa/nrc/carton-2006.pdf

3) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10403089&dopt=Abstract

4) http://www.ada.org/public/topics/fluoride/us_fluoridation.pdf

New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof

Fluoride Action Network

http://www.FluorideAction.Net

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

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

2007-02-18T01:15:00.000-05:00

"Watch this revealing video of a TV news report on the dangers of fluoride.

http://mfile. akamai.com/ 25577/wmv/ vod.ibsys. com/2007/ 0126/10846883. 200k.asx"

2007-02-02T11:39:00.000-05:00

Give Kids Their Smiles Back – Stop Fluoridation

New York – January 30, 2007 -- One day a year, dentists country-wide celebrate “Give-Kids-A-Smile” day, (GKAS), with much self-promotion and merchandising. This year it’s February 2. But for the rest of the year, most dentists refuse children on Medicaid or other government-sponsored insurance (1).

Instead, dentistry promotes water fluoridation to remedy tooth decay disparities between haves and have-nots.

Unfortunately, that’s failing:

New York State Department of Health statistics (2) illustrate fluoridation’s inability to equalize cavity rates between low and high socio-economic-status (SES) groups, and that fluoridation and tooth decay rates are not inversely related (3) See chart: http://www.freewebs.com/fluoridation/chart.htm

For example, non-fluoridated Nassau, Suffolk and Rockland Counties’ third-graders decay rates: 50%, 54% and 46%, respectively. In slightly fluoridated Albany County 38% have cavities.

Highly fluoridated NYS Counties include Monroe, Erie, Chemung, Broome, Wayne and Jefferson. Third-graders decay rates: 56%, 59%, 55%, 63%,66%,66% and 69%, respectively.

Despite fluoridated water reaching about ¾ of New Yorkers, 54% of third-graders have cavities and more untreated decay than third-graders nationally (33% vs 26%). Only one-fourth of NYS dentists submitted Medicaid claims (4).

Third-graders in 100% fluoridated New York City had more untreated cavities (38%) than their state and national counterparts (4).

Before organized dentistry became fluoride fixated, a 1950 Connecticut study, before fluoridation, clearly linked more fruit, vegetable and milk consumption to less cavities (5) Dentist Weston Price reported a similar correlation world-wide in his 1938 book, “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.”

Today Connecticut mandates fluoridation. Yet 48% of 4-year-olds suffer untreated cavities (6) partially because 85% of dentists won’t or can’t treat patients with low-paying government-sponsored insurance (7).

After 60 years of water fluoridation reaching 2/3 of Americans via public water supplies, virtually 100% via the food supply and fluoridated dental products a multi-billion dollar international business, up to ½ of U.S. schoolchildren sport fluoride overdose symptoms as dental fluorosis – white spotted, yellow or brown, sometimes pitted teeth (8) But tooth decay is still a national epidemic, especially among low-income Americans who can't find dentists willing or able to fix their rotting teeth.

Regardless of fluoride intake, modern science continues to show that young children with fewer cavities eat more produce (9). Only 12% of US kids eat enough fruits and vegetables.(10) And, the poor are priced out of healthful eating. (10a)

“Will dentists hand out food vouchers and dietary advice on GKAS Day or just more fluoride?” asks Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation. “It’s not all about avoiding sugar as most dentists preach,” says Beeber.

“With fluorosis rampant, dentists could make more kids smile by stopping fluoridation,” says Beeber

Dental Health Aide Therapists (DHATs) could be the solution to the oral health crisis. DHATs are to dentists what Physician’s Assistants and Nurse Practitioners are to Physicians. DHATs work successfully throughout the world and can drill, fill and pull teeth in the mouths and geographic areas where dentists can’t or won’t go, more cheaply and as effectively. (11)

Unfortunately, organized dentistry is suing to stop the first New Zealand trained U.S. DHAT from supplying much-needed dental care in Alaska where officials are unable to entice dentists to live or work. (12a) Defying organized dentistry, the first U.S. school just opened in Alaska to train more DHATs (12)

Children need dental care not more fluoride. In fluoridated Arlington, Texas, 61 percent of children examined had active decay After dentists donated their services, tooth decay was cut to less than half of what it was when the program started.(13)

Nationally, up to 48% of poor children, 8-year–olds and under, have unfilled cavities, whether their water is fluoridated or not. (13a).

Fluoride varnish is now used on children as soon as teeth emerge.

Fluoride varnish contains a highly toxic 22,600 parts per million (ppm) fluoride (14) compared to one ppm in fluoridated drinking water that’s not advised for under one-year-old babies (15) and 1,000 ppm in toothpaste that’s not to be used by children less than two years old. (16)

“Fluoride. It just doesn’t make sense anymore,” says Beeber..

Contact:

Paul Beeber, Esq. nyscof@aol.com

New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc

PO Box 263

Old Bethpage, NY 11804

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

http://www.FluorideAction.Net

http://www.FluorideResearch.Org

References:

More evidence that fluoridation fails New York State:

http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2005/12/fluoridation-fails-new-york-state.html

(1) U.S. Dep’t of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, “Dental Care Improving Access and Quality”

http://www.ahrq.gov/research/dentalcare/dentria.htm#poor

And

U.S. General Accounting Organization, “Oral Health Factors Contributing to Low Use of Dental Services by Low-Income Populations,” September 2000

http://www.gao.gov/archive/2000/he00149.pdf

(2) New York State Department of Health, Community Health Assessment Indicators (Oral Health) http://www.health.state.ny.us/statistics/chac/chai/index.htm

(3) Fluoridation rate of NYS Counties provided by Tim Cook, DDS, former NYS Dep’t of Health employee

(4) The Impact of Oral Disease in New York State,” New York State Department of Health, Bureau of Dental Health, December 2006, Green et al (page 8)

http://www.nyhealth.gov/prevention/dental/docs/impact_of_oral_disease.pdf )

(5) Potgieter, M., Morse, E.H., Erlenbach, F. M., and Dall, R.: The food habits and dental status of some Connecticut children. J. Dent. Res., 35:638. 1956

http://tinyurl.com/2lagfg

(6) Connecticut State Department of Public Health, “Open Wide Curriculum – Lesson 1: Dental Decay,” http://www.dph.state.ct.us/bch/oralhealth/publications_reports/openwide_curriculum/OW_Lesson_1.pdf

(7) “Elements of effective action to improve oral health & access to dental care for Connecticut’s children & families,” Commissioned by Connecticut Health Foundation and Children’s Fund of Connecticut, Prepared by James J. Crall, DDS, ScD and Burton L. Edelstein DDS, MPH (page 4)

http://www.cthealth.org/matriarch/documents/oralhealthsum.pdf

(8) http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/figures/s403a1t23.gif

(9) “The relationship between healthful eating practices and dental caries in children aged 2-5 years in the United States, 1988-94,” J. Am Dent Assoc, January 2004, by Dye et al.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=14959875&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum

(10) “U.S. Kids’ Health Habits Put Them at Risk,” Healthscout.com, Jan 26, 2007 http://www.healthscout.com/news/1/601319/main.html

(10a) http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0129-06.htm

(11) http://www.anthc.org/cs/chs/dhs/

(12) http://www.anthc.org/cs/chs/dhs/upload/UAATheNothernLight-DentalDebateGoesToCourt_2-21-06_AFleming.pdf

(12b) http://www.adn.com/front/story/8566500p-8459175c.html

(13) http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/16566335.htm

(13a)http://drc.hhs.gov/report/dqs_tables/dqs_1_1_1.htm

(14)

http://www.colgateprofessional.com/app/ColgateProfessional/US/EN/Products/ProductItems/ColgateDuraphat.cvsp

(15) http://groups.google.com/group/Fluoridation-News-Releases/browse_thread/thread/51981fb711662057

(16) http://www.aapd.org/pediatricinformation/faq.asp

2007-01-24T05:57:00.000-05:00

CDC: No Fluoride for Babies

January 23, 2007 -- New York -- Without fanfare or public announcement, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) posted a new fluoride caution on their website - avoid mixing fluoridated water into concentrated infant formula to prevent discoloring babies’ new teeth. (1)
This came after the American Dental Association issued this alert to its members, but not the public, on November 9, 2007(1a) and after the Food and Drug Administration's similar announcement (1b).

There is no dispute that too much fluoride causes dental fluorosis - white spotted, yellow or brown and sometimes pitted enamel. The CDC now admits that babies can ingest too much fluoride when fluoridated water is mixed into their concentrated infant formula and foods. Fluoride is added to 2/3 of public water supplies based on a disproved theory that fluoride ingestion prevents cavities.

"Where’s the media alert so that the parents, caregivers, healthcare workers and legislators know about this," asks lawyer Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc.(NYSCOF).

A New Hampshire newspaper reports the federal Women, Infant and Children (WIC) program still encourages mothers to mix formula with fluoridated water. (2)

“The CDC leaves it up to groups like ours to share the bad fluoride news,” says Beeber, “And then they will probably criticize us for doing so as they have in the past.” (2a)

This is what the CDC’s website says (1):

"It now appears that the amount of the fluoride contained in the water used for mixing infant formula may influence a child’s risk for developing enamel fluorosis, particularly if the child’s sole source of nutrition is from reconstituted infant formula."

“If tap water is fluoridated or has substantial natural fluoride (0.7 mg/L or higher), a parent may consider using a low-fluoride alternative water source. Bottled water known to be low in fluoride is labeled as purified, deionized, demineralized, distilled, or prepared by reverse osmosis.”

“Using only water with low fluoride levels to mix formula will not eliminate the risk of enamel fluorosis…Other factors that contribute to developing fluorosis include swallowing of toothpaste and use of dietary supplements that include fluoride (tablets or drops).”

The CDC reports that, “formula itself has low amounts of fluoride,” [and] “when infant formula concentrate is mixed with fluoridated water and used as the primary source of nutrition, it may introduce fluoride at levels above the amount recommended to minimize the risk for fluorosis.”

What is recommended?

According to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) (3), to avoid moderate fluorosis (yellow or brown teeth), the adequate daily intake of fluoride, from all sources, should not exceed:

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

Babies, under one year, consume over their adequate intake from the water supply alone at the so-called optimal concentrations (0.7 - 1.2 mg/L), according to the March 2006 NAS’ National Research Council (NRC) fluoride report (4).

The CDC reports, “one-third (33%) of children aged 12 to 15 years in the United States have very mild to mild forms of this condition.” However, the CDC omits that about 4% have moderate or severe fluorosis, according to the same reference. And up to ½ of all schoolchildren have fluorosis when the “questionable” category is included. (5)

The American Dental Association's Fluoridation Facts describes questionable fluorosis as "A few white specks or white spots." (6)

The CDC admits that “More cosmetically objectionable forms of this condition can occur when young children consume excess fluoride from all sources during critical periods of tooth development [up to age 8].”

Also alarming is that bottled water with added fluoride is now sold with the now-contraindicated instructions to mix into infant formula.(7)

Also little publicized is that the NRC report reveals that some people risk thyroid dysfunction and bone damage from drinking even low levels of fluoride; and studies linking fluoride to cancer and lowered IQ are plausible.

Few know that too much fluoride can actually decay teeth.(7a) And that the most widely used fluoridation chemicals, silicofluorides, are linked to higher rates of tooth decay.(7b)

“Parents also need to be taught the fluoride content of foods in easy-to-understand language, so it’s possible to tally daily fluoride intake and to be taught fluoride’s adverse health and dental effects,” says Beeber.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has compiled fluoride content of foods. (8)

NYSCOF warned the public about a research review published in 2000 showing infant formula mixed with fluoridated water leads to fluorosis.(2a) Many published studies link infant formula to fluorosis.(9)

A Tennessee legislator who is also a medical doctor asked all water departments in Tennessee to shut off the fluoride because of health concerns.(10) In Oregon, a fluoridation bill is stalled by a doctor and nurse in the legislature citing health concerns.(11)

New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc.

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

Fluoride Action Network

http://www.FluorideAction.Net

Fluoride Journal

http://www.FluorideResearch.Org

SOURCE: New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc

References:

(1) http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/safety/infant_formula.htm

Accessed 1/18/07

(1a) http://www.ada.org/prof/resources/pubs/epubs/egram/egram_061109.pdf

1b) US FDA, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of Nutritional Products, Labeling, and Dietary Supplements, October 14, 2006, “Health Claim Notification for Fluoridated Water and Reduced Risk of Dental Caries

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/flfluoro.html

(2) “Formula, fluoride mix may discolor infants’ teeth,” By Mark Hayward, Union Leader, Jan 11, 2007

http://tinyurl.com/35ot7c

(2a) http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof/_pgg10.php3

(3) The National Academies of Science, “Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Vitamin D, and Fluoride,:1997

(4) The National Academies of Science, Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water, National Research Council, “Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA’s Standards,” March 2006

(5) US Centers for Disease Control. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/figures/s403a1t23.gif

(6) http://www.ada.org/public/topics/fluoride/facts/fluoridation_facts.pdf (page 28)

(7) http://www.nurserywater.com/home.html

(7a) "Dentistry, Dental Practice, and the Community," 5th edition 1999 Burt/Eklund

(7b) http://tinyurl.com/yq8y66

(8) http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/Fluoride/Fluoride.html

(9) http://tinyurl.com/y58bfc

(10) http://www.fluoridealert.org/press/hensley.htm

(11) http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=116915487295110600

http://www.helium.com/topics/new/122

2006-11-12T09:20:00.000-05:00

FDA Never Safety-Tested Fluoride Ingestion
FDA approval of fluoridated bottled water may be premature

New York -- October 24, 2006 -- Because of a glitch in the law,3 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) never safety-tested fluoride for ingestion.1 Yet, the FDA recently OK’d cavity-preventing claims on fluoridated bottled water labels,2 giving Americans a false sense of security about the safety and effectiveness of drinking bottled water with fluoride added.

Sodium fluoride was sold before FDA safety and effectiveness testing laws were enacted in 1938 and 1962, respectively. So fluoride was exempt from scrutiny, or “grandfathered in,” without any FDA human or animal studies.3 “The premise was that all pre-1938 drugs were considered safe,” according to FDA correspondence.3

Sodium fluoride was already sold pre-1938 but not as a decay preventive. As strange as it sounds, it commonly sold as a rat poison. The FDA has no information on the medical uses of fluoride before 1938.3

According to the FDA’s website: “New products that are designed to treat human conditions or diseases are scrutinized by FDA's reviewers for safety and effectiveness before they can be made available to consumers.” 4 But this never occurred for fluoride or fluoridated bottled water.

In fact, the FDA can't assess whether something added to the water is safe because there's no way to know how much people will consume, according to an FDA spokesperson quoted in a Colorado newspaper. 5 "The drug approval process requires specific dosing and conditions to be treated and clinical trials,’ [FDA spokesperson] Koontz said,” according to the Daily Camera.

The FDA approved fluoridated toothpaste, as a drug, for topical application as in toothpaste; but not for swallowing. In fact, toothpaste tubes are imprinted with FDA “do not swallow” warnings.

However, fluoridated bottled water is meant to be swallowed. Not a nutrient, fluoride is a drug prescribed to treat humans against tooth decay. The FDA never studied fluoride ingestion, in any form, for adverse health effects or to discover if it really reduces tooth decay.6

Adding fluoride chemicals into public water supplies (water fluoridation) began in the mid 1900’s. It was then believed fluoride worked from the inside, that is to say, ingested fluoride incorporated into children’s, and only children’s, developing tooth enamel to shield against tooth decay. However, modern science proves fluoride absorbs into enamel by topical means alone or from the outside and it can occur over the lifetime of the tooth..

Unfortunately, science also tells us that ingested fluoride has many health risks, including tooth damage or dental fluorosis – white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth – a consequence of fluoride over-ingestion which is a growing U.S. problem.7

The following side effects may be early signs of possible chronic fluoride overdose, according to the Mayo Clinic website: 8

Pain and aching of bones; skin rash; sores in the mouth and on the lips; stiffness; white, brown, or black discoloration of teeth.

“Modern studies also link fluoride to arthritis, allergies, kidney and thyroid dysfunction, bone damage and cancer even at the low levels dentists claim is optimal to reduce tooth decay,” says lawyer Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. “Adding fluoride to bottled water implies to the American public that FDA studies give fluoride a clean bill of health – and that’s not true,” says Beeber.

No studies link fluoride-free bottled water to more tooth decay, according to the American Dental Association (ADA).9

“The ADA should lobby for fluoride content labeling on all foods,” says Beeber. “Because fluoridated water is used in processing and because of fluoride pesticide residues, virtually all foods and beverages have a fluoride content – even soda, candy, french fries, grape juice and some chicken products. Americans are actually over-fluoridated now; and should avoid fluoridated water – whether from the tap or the bottle, in our opinion.” says Beeber.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture lists the fluoride content of many foods here: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/Fluoride/Fluoride.html

References:

1) U.S. FDA Approved Drug List

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/

2) US FDA, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of Nutritional Products, Labeling, and Dietary Supplements, October 14, 2006, “Health Claim Notification for Fluoridated Water and Reduced Risk of Dental Caries

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/flfluoro.html

3) E-mail correspondence at bottom of article

http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2005/12/fluoride-never-fda-approved-for.html

4) “FDA’s Growing Responsibilities for the Year 2001 and Beyond,” Page 2 – Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Adminstration

http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/budgetbro/budgetbro.pdf

5) Daily Camera, “FDA wants out of 2B dispute - Feds say they didn’t expect comments to appear in ad,” By Ryan Morgan, October 24, 2006

http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/county_news/article/0,1713,BDC_2423_5089663,00.html

6) Letter from Assemblyman John V. Kelly to Senator Robert Smith, August 14, 2000 http://www.fluoridealert.org/fda.htm

7) Surveillance for Dental Caries, Dental Sealants, Tooth Retentin, Edentulism, and Enamel Fluorosis --- United States, 1988—1994 and 1999—2002

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5403a1.htm

8) Mayo Clinic - Drugs & Supplements – Vitamins and Fluoride (Systemic) http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/drug-information/DR202600

9) E-mail correspondence with the American Dental Association

http://www.zerowasteamerica.org/Fluoride&ADA.htm

2006-09-26T07:35:00.000-04:00

Fluoride Harms Children's Liver & Kidneys, study shows:

New York -- August 2006 -- Fluoride in drinking water damages children's liver and kidney functions, according to a new study in Environmental Research(1)

Xiong and colleagues write,â€œOur results suggest that drinking water fluoride levels over 2.0 mg/L can cause damage to liver and kidney functions in children.â€ Further, dental fluorosis (fluoride-discolored teeth) can be an indicator of kidney function harm, they report.

Researchers grouped 210 Chinese children (aged 10 â€“ 12 years old) by drinking water fluoride levels (averaging 0 .76; 1.47; 2.58; and 4.5l mg/L). Dental fluorosis rates, respectively, were 15%, 41%, 79% and 94%.

Blood serum and urine samples revealed:-- fluoride levels increased as water fluoride levels increased

-- liver and kidney enzymes elevated, indicative of liver or kidney damage, in children drinking water with over 2mg fluoride per liter.-- liver function can be damaged without dental fluorosis

"Dose-effect relationship between water fluoride levels and damage to liver and kidney functions in animals has been reported," the authors write. However, this is one of the few to do so in humans. The liver and kidneys are especially susceptible to fluoride toxicity, they write.

2006-06-23T19:18:00.000-04:00

News Release from the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc.

Google Groups: Fluoridation News Releases

2006-03-13T08:09:00.000-05:00

Dental care gap hurts poor - 03/13/06 - The Detroit News:

In fluoridated Detroit, Michigan:

"a dentist pulled more than 30 teeth out of the mouth of Henry Lefler, an autistic man whose teeth rotted because of his medication, a serious infection and because Medicaid dental care was not available for adults."

"Number of dentists accepting Medicaid has dropped by one-third, making it hard for many to find care"

2006-03-12T06:43:00.000-05:00

Google Groups : Fluoridation News Releases

Fluoride Not Reducing Tooth Decay, New Studies Show

ew York - March 8 -- Fluoride is not stopping cavities and is
causing discolored teeth, is reported in several studies to be
presented at the American Association for Dental Research's annual
meeting from March 8 - 11, 2006, in Orlando, Florida.

For example:

-- Researchers following children from birth, starting in 1991- 1995
(Iowa Fluoride Study), found almost double the dental fluorosis in
early erupting permanent teeth of 9 year-olds drinking optimally
fluoridated water compared to children drinking sub-optimally
fluoridated water (41% vs 21%); but no less tooth decay.(1)

-- Researchers found no significant relationship between fluoride
exposure and cavities in permanent teeth of 6 to 9-year-olds in
Campeche, Mexico(2). Previously, it was reported that 56% of this group
has dental fluorosis.(3)

-- A U.S. national study reports cavity prevalence increased by 15% in
2 to 5-year-olds, in surveys taken between 1988-1994 and 1999-2002,(4)
despite 60 years of water fluoridation reaching 2/3 of Americans on
public water supplies and virtually 100% via the food supply. However,
the Centers for Disease Control report that 1/3 to 1/2 of U.S.
schoolchildren display dental fluorosis.(4a)

-- Another U.S. study shows that breastfed children have less cavities
than non-breastfed.(5) even though breast milk has 100 times less
fluoride than dentists claim is optimal to reduce cavities.
Breastfeeding is also protective against fluorosis.(5a)

-- Although New York City fluoridated in 1965, NYC children of Chinese
descent suffer a much higher prevalence and severity of tooth decay
than the national average (63% vs 38%). (6)

-- About half of 7 to14-year-old children from fluoridated Rochester,
NY, have cavities. Latino children had significantly higher caries
experience than African-American and Caucasian children, thus
indicating that disparities exist among different ethnic groups even
when the water is fluoridated.(7)

-- In fluoridated Detroit, 91% of African American low-income
children, 5 years and younger, have tooth decay.(8)

"Today, fluoridation puts American children at risk of dental
fluorosis without any benefit of less tooth decay," says Paul Beeber,
President and General Counsel, New York State Coalition Opposed to
Fluoridation. "And growing evidence links fluoride to
hypersensitivities, bone damage, thyroid problems and more," says
Beeber.

These studies add to a growing body of evidence pointing to fluoride's
ineffectiveness and lack of safety: See:
http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/teeth/caries/fluoridation.html#top

References: http://groups.google.com/group/Fluoridation-News-Releases

Contact: Paul Beeber, nys...@aol.com

SOURCE: NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation
www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof
www.FluorideAction.Net

References:

(1) AADR 35th Annual Meeting in Orlando:
Abstract # 0153 - Dental caries and fluorosis in relation to water
fluoride levels, I Hong, SM Levy, J Warren, B Broffitt
http://snipurl.com/n8hg

(2) AADR 35th Annual Meeting in Orlando:
Abstract # 1995 - Cross-Sectional analysis of dental caries in children
with mixed dentition, AA Vallejos-Sanchez, CE Mendina-Solis, JF
Casanova-Rosado, G Maupome, AJ Casanova-Rosado, M Minaya-Sanchez
http://snipurl.com/n8i9

(3) Prevalence of dental fluorosis and additional sources of exposure
to fluoride as risk factors to dental fluorosis in schoolchildren of
Campeche, Mexico, PR Beltran-Valladares, H Cocom-Tun, JF
Casanova-Rosado, AA Vallejos-Sanchez, CE Medina-Solis, G Maupome, Rev
Invest Clin. 2005 Uly-Aug;57(4):532-9
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&...

(4) AADR 35th Annual Meeting in Orlando:
Abstract # 0458 - Trends in Dental Caries of Primary Teeth, United
States, 1988-2002, F Jaramillo, E Beltran, L Barker, S Griffin, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention http://snipurl.com/n8jq

(4a) Beltrán-Aguilar et al. Surveillance for Dental Caries, Dental
Sealants, Tooth Retention, Edentulism and Enamel Fluorosis - United
States, 1988-1994 and 1999-2002. MMWR. CDC August 26, 2005
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5403a1.htm

(5) AADR 35th Annual Meeting in Orlando:
Abstract # 0881 - No association between breastfeeding and early
childhood caries: NHANES 1999-2002, H Iida, P Auinger, M Weitzman, RJ
Billings http://snipurl.com/n8jw

(5a) Breastfeeding is Protective Against Dental Fluorosis in a
Nonfluoridated Rural Area of Ontario, Canada, D Brothwell, H Limeback,
Journal of Human Lactation, Vol. 19, No. 4, 386-390 (2003)
http://jhl.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/19/4/386

(6) AADR 35th Annual Meeting in Orlando:
Abstract # 0l50 - Caries Experience among Chinese-American Children and
Adolescents in Lower Manhattan, CH Chinn http://snipurl.com/n8k9

(7) AADR 35th Annual Meeting in Orlando:
Abstract # 0478 - Dental Caries in Latino Elementary School Children, S
Gajendra http://snipurl.com/n8lz

(8) AADR 35th Annual Meeting in Orlando:
Abstract # 1992 - Severity of Dental Caries Among African American
Children in Detroit, AI Ismail, M Tellez http://snipurl.com/n8m2

2006-01-01T08:38:00.000-05:00

Fluoridation - A Medical Blunder

Impure, untested and non-required fluoride chemicals are legislated into most U.S. water supplies, not to kill nasty microbes, but to medicate tap water drinkers who are assured water fluoridation is a safe and effective way to prevent tooth decay. But it is neither.

Water fluoridation is an old-fashioned concept. It is dentistry's continued goal for every American's faucet to dispense 1 milligram fluoride via approximately one quart of water. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) tells us that 2/3 of Americans receive fluoridated tap water. Virtually 100% eat and drink a fluoridated food supply.

Fluoridation, shockingly, is not supported by valid science

New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc: Fluoridation - A Medical Blunder

2005-12-31T08:28:00.000-05:00

Fluoride In Chicken

NEW YORK - October 21, 2005 -- Some foods frequently eaten by babies
and toddlers contain fluoride, not listed as an ingredient, and can
damage children's teeth, according to the September, 2001, Journal of
Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

Because fluoride is added to most U.S. water supplies and that water is
used to process foods that feed and hydrate farm animals,
fluoride shows up in the strangest places.

Swallowed fluoride stores in bones as well as teeth. Meat removed from
bones by a machine invariably grinds bone powder into the finished
product. So mechanically separated meats, especially chicken, have much
more fluoride than most foods because they contain fluoride-rich bone
dust.

Fluoride is added to water supplies to reduce tooth decay "There is,
however, a narrow range between beneficial and undesirable effects of
fluoride intake," write Oregon State University researchers Fein and
Cerklewski, authors of "Fluoride Content of Foods Made with
Mechanically Separated Chicken."

Google Groups : Fluoridation News Releases

2005-12-30T06:21:00.000-05:00

Google Groups : Fluoridation News Releases

New York - -- Cavity rates declined in several cities that stopped
water fluoridation, new studies report, contradicting American Dental
Association (ADA) predictions.

2005-12-30T06:17:00.000-05:00

Google Groups : Fluoridation News Releases

2004-08-31T06:53:00.000-04:00

Dental program expands in N.Ky.:

Kentucky 96% fluoridated.

"Kentucky has a high rate of dental neglect. A 2002 survey by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found 42 percent of Kentuckians 65 and older had lost all their natural teeth.
The University of Kentucky recently found that 57 percent of third- and sixth- grade students had fillings or tooth decay, and that 31 percent needed treatment. "

2004-08-31T06:43:00.000-04:00

Philadelphia Inquirer | 08/31/2004 | Bottled water no threat for more cavities:

(William Bailey, a CDC oral health expert) "No scientific studies definitively prove a link between bottled water and cavities, Bailey and other experts said"

2004-08-30T17:50:00.000-04:00

NBCSandiego.com - News - Fluoridation Plan Set For Approval: "Fluoridation Plan Set For Approval
$7 Million Price Tag Attached To Project"

2004-06-12T13:48:00.000-04:00

Detail for Sunol Valley Fluoridation Facility:

The work consists of construction, start-up and testing, and commissioning a new Fluoridation Facility in the Sunol Valley, a new remote fluoride monitoring station at Alameda West, and a new remote fluoride monitoring station at Irvington Portal.

Est. Cost: .$2,500,000

2004-05-22T07:52:00.000-04:00

Colorado is 77% fluoridated:

"their passion for the fixing the dental crisis has been driven by the children and adults they've seen in pain. Harmon believes that if people could see the problem first-hand like she does on a daily basis, they'd feel just as compelled."

2004-05-21T15:49:00.000-04:00

USATODAY.com - Keep kids' tooth decay at bay:

After over five decades of water fluoridation:

"the number of cavities in baby teeth ...has remained unchanged among those aged 2 to 5 since the 1970s, the study authors noted."

2004-05-20T07:01:00.000-04:00

Consultant’s Competitive Negotiation Act (CCNA) Agreement approved by County
Administrator for quarter ending March 31, 2004 (Agreement for Consultant Services for
the Addition of Fluoride to the Pinellas County Drinking Water Supply in the amount of
$83,998.00) received for filing.

2004-04-23T06:55:00.000-04:00

portmacquarie.yourguide:

"THE Mid-North Coast Area Health Service will pay $2 million to fluoridate regional water supplies"

2004-03-15T07:04:00.000-05:00

Tribnet.com - News: "UTILITY CONSUMERS FLUORIDATION DATE ESTIMATED COST (Washington State)

Puyallup 34,000 Jan. 2005 $250,000
Sumner 8,500 March 31 $150,000
Milton 8,000 March 8 $69,500
Steilacoom 6,100 No date None yet
Parkland Light & Water * 22,000 Feb. 25 $160,000
Firgrove Mutual Water Co. 17,000 No date None yet
Southwood-Sound cos. 18,000 Summer 2004 $800,000"

2004-03-12T07:17:00.000-05:00

Dental Advice - Tooth Erosion:

"Avoid tooth brushing immediately after eating or drinking something acidic as this is likely to speed up the erosion"

2004-03-12T07:16:00.000-05:00

Fluoride has 'no effect' on tooth disease :

"A NEW study has found that children from homes with fluoridated water have similar levels of dental erosion to those with no fluoride. "

2004-03-12T07:11:00.000-05:00

Prevention by means of fluoride of enamel erosion as caused by soft drinks and orange juice:

"In conclusion, the acidic soft drinks are capable of dissolving considerable amounts of calcium fluoride and the erosion-preventive effect of even high fluoride concentrations is limited."

2004-03-12T07:08:00.000-05:00

BBC NEWS | Health | Bad teeth blamed on fizzy drinks (soda):

"The risk of tooth erosion was 59% higher in 12-year-olds, and 220% higher in 14-year-olds who drank fizzy drinks.

Drinking at least four glasses a day was associated with an increased risk of 252% in 12-year-olds and a massive 513% increased risk in 14-year-olds."

"'The soft drinks industry recommends that consumers should brush their teeth twice a day with a fluoride toothpaste and avoid drinking soft drinks after they have cleaned their teeth at night. "

2004-01-13T06:38:00.000-05:00

ADA.org: ADA News: Growth in dental spending continues to outpace economic growth:

"Washington -- Americans spent a record $70.3 billion for dental care in 2002, the Bush administration said Jan. 8 in the annual government report on National Health Expenditures.
The rate of growth in dental spending continues to outpace total economic growth, according to Department of Health and Human Services actuaries tracking trends in the health economy"

2004-01-13T06:13:00.000-05:00

National Institute of Dental Research tooth decay data/a>:

"However, Brunelle & Carlos looked at a more sensitive measure of tooth decay - they looked at Decayed Missing and Filled SURFACES (DMFS). There are 128 tooth surfaces in a child's mouth. (16 teeth with 5 surfaces and 12 (6 front top and bottom) with 4 surfaces = 80 48 = 128.)

For children (aged 5 - 17 years) who lived all their lives in fluoridated (number of children= 8165) or non-fluoridated communities (number of children = 8233) Brunelle and Carlos found an average difference of 0.6 tooth surfaces, i.e. this is less than 1% of the tooth surfaces"

2004-01-12T06:27:00.000-05:00

Santa_Monica_News_Pumps, Tanks and Stairs:

"The council also is expected to grant a $300,000 contract to Kennedy/Jenks Consultants to design the Fluoridation and Riviera Reservoir Booster Pump Station Projects"

2004-01-08T08:00:00.000-05:00

The Salt Lake Tribune -- Water companies sue to stop fluoride: "costs of adding fluoride to the city's 23 wells -- used primarily in summer months -- would be $1.4 million" (in Sandy Utah)

2004-01-08T07:58:00.000-05:00

The Salt Lake Tribune -- Water companies sue to stop fluoride:

"The providers also say that if they are forced to fluoridate, the county should pick up the tab. White City says the price could range from $700,000 to $1.5 million, and Holliday argues its bill could top $500,000"

2004-01-02T17:01:00.000-05:00

STAFF REPORT<
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The estimated contract value including all charges and taxes for the period January 1, 2004 toDecember 31, 2004 is $483,844.91. Water and Wastewater Division 2004 Preliminary OperatingBudget will commit to the provision of funds in the amount of $589,836.00 (net after GST rebate)within the Water Supply Production Appropriation, pending final approval by the City Council.The options to renew will result in an additional estimated cost, including all charges and taxes of$483,844.91 for 2005 and $506,191.32 for 2006. The total estimated funds for the three-year periodis $1,473,881.14 including all charges and taxes

2004-01-02T17:00:00.000-05:00

infobrix

The council also learned the city is getting a $9,000 grant from the Virginia Department of Health for a new fluoridation feeder system for its water treatment plant

2004-01-02T16:57:00.000-05:00

Board Letter Packet:

"Appropriate $1.2 million in reimbursable funds for studies and design of fluoridation facilities at four of Metropolitan's filtration plants; and authorize entering into an agreement with CGvL Engineers in an amount not to exceed $500,000 for design "

2003-12-19T11:58:00.000-05:00

Tualatin survey shows support for fluoridated water Tualatin poll backs fluoridated water: "In Beaverton, where voters last year approved fluoridating city-supplied water by a 53-to-47 ratio, bids were opened Wednesday for installing the city's fluoridation equipment. Hollinger Construction of Longview, Wash., submitted the lowest of four bids at $588,375. "

2003-12-13T09:00:00.000-05:00

DO WE BELIEVE THIS?

American Dental Association: Media News Releases: "tooth decay is preventable, says Dr. Harms"

2003-12-13T07:17:00.000-05:00

OR THIS?

"Despite regular brushing and flossing and dental visits, tooth decay still catches up with almost everyone. Nearly 20 percent of children between 2 and 4 years old have detectable decay, and by age 17, nearly 80 percent have at least one cavity. "

2003-12-13T07:09:00.000-05:00

Boston.com / News / World / City holds its breath as volcano bubbles:
"The poisonous plume has withered nearby forests and fields, he said, but also contains large quantities of fluorine, which has seeped into local water supplies. As a result, fluoride levels are more than 10 times the recommended maximum in some villages. Villagers are showing signs of dental fluorosis, a rotting of the teeth caused by the excess."

2003-12-11T05:34:00.000-05:00

infobrix:
"About $1.3 million for test drilling to find water that meets the health department's lower fluoride standard will add to the financial dilemma. "

"To lower fluoride, Smithfield will have to install expensive filtering systems and is expected to raise water rates in the future."
from http://www.dailypress.com

2003-12-10T07:57:00.000-05:00

The Salt Lake Tribune -- Small suppliers ask for fluoride waivers:

"But Holliday, which serves some 10,000 east-side residents, and White City, which provides water to 14,000 residents, say the costs voters saw before approving the additive are not even close to what the actual price turned out to be. "

"That pamphlet, sent to voters before the election, said the additive (fluoride) would cost about $1 to $2 a year per resident, but Holliday and White City say the cost for them to put in fluoride would be $60 to $70 per resident a year."

2003-12-10T07:54:00.000-05:00

North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest Riverside County News: "city officials have only recently finished installing the $300,000 in new fluoridation equipment at Escondido's water treatment plant. Next, they must ask the local office of Department of Health Services to run a mandatory series of tests before fluoridation can begin,"

2003-12-08T11:13:00.000-05:00

SNWA: Fluoride: "Valley residents pay an average of 4 cents per month to cover fluoridation costs, which total about $350,000 annually. "

2003-12-08T11:12:00.001-05:00

WATER FLUORIDATION: "Design and construction costs to equip one well house with a fluoridation system is estimated to be approximately $ 75,000. As such, the costs for supplying the Town with a complete fluoride system are estimated to be $ 525,000 to $ 600,000 depending on the exact number of well houses to be retrofitted.
Annual operation and maintenance costs would consist primarily of the hydrofluosilicic acid and the fluoride testing equipment. We estimate the operation and maintenance costs would range from $18,250 to $ 20,250 per year. "

2003-12-08T11:12:00.000-05:00

Redding California & Fluoridation Issue: "Water fluoridation is doable in Redding and grants will cover nearly all of the equipment's $1.9 million price tag"

2003-12-08T10:58:00.000-05:00

Health Promotion - Fluoride: "What is the cost to fluoridate Calgary's drinking water?

The costs for fluoridation are as follows:
Capital Cost of Equipment Installation $ 1,400,000.00
Annual Operating Cost $ 320,000.00
Amortization of Capital Costs at 9% for 25 yrs$ 154,232.00
Total Annual Cost$ 474,232.00

2003-12-08T10:55:00.000-05:00

Pool Trust Offers up to $500,000 for Fluoridation: "The Dorothy Rider Pool Health Care Trust will pay up to $500,000 of the start-up costs to fluoridate Allentown water, Mayor William L. Heydt and trust Executive Director Edward F. Meehan announced Tuesday."

2003-12-08T10:54:00.000-05:00

Redding.com - Record Searchlight newspaper - Fight over fluoride:

"The consultant this June set the price tag for the equipment ? and for running it one year ? at $2.18 million. By then, the city had lined up $2.35 million from private foundations and in public grants.
The Fluoridation 2010 Work Group had offered the city up to $1.6 million of that total. The group is working with the state to implement AB 733.
The coalition offered the city that money from a pool of $15 million the California Endowment has tendered toward fluoridation statewide. The foundation administers proceeds from health insurance giant Blue Cross' conversion to a for-profit corporation."

2003-12-08T10:51:00.000-05:00

Water fluoridation, Texas Department of Health-Dental Health:

Water Fluoridation System Cost Estimates - Texas 2000

City Start Up** Maintenance***

Abilene $172,111 $33,840

San Angelo $74,636 $17,353

San antonio $1,998,649 $182,832

Texarkana $167,933 $31,446

** Costs include engineering, chemicals system installation & 10% contingency
*** Per year cost for chemicals [fluorosilicic acid] MGY = million gallons per year Source: TDH Oral Health Division, Texas Fluoridation Project"

2003-12-08T10:32:00.000-05:00

Grant Application Guidance Document: "DHEC has allocated a total of $76,000 for the Drinking Water Fluoridation Grant Program for the current fiscal year"

2003-12-08T10:31:00.000-05:00

Board of Health Agenda -- December 3, 2003: "Authorization to accept an additional $100,000 from the Washington Dental Service Foundation (WDSF), increasing the Agreement with WDSF from $420,000 to $520,000, to assist communities in Pierce County to implement community water fluoridation pursuant to Board of Health Resolution No. 2003-3366-A2"

2003-12-08T10:28:00.000-05:00

peninsuladailynews.com - Port Angeles: Fluoride supporters to present $24,000 to City Council: "Fluoridation supporters will present a $24,000 check to the City Council tonight to help fund fluoridation of the city's water system."

"The City Council voted 6-1 on Feb. 18 to accept a Washington Dental Services Foundation grant of up to $260,000 to fund installation of water fluoridation equipment and public education efforts."

2003-12-08T10:23:00.000-05:00

The Salt Lake Tribune -- Millions down the drain:

Utah: "To date, Weber Basin Water, which supplies less than 50 percent of Davis County's water, has a total fluoride cost of $2.5 million, Layton will spend $800,000 and Centerville $700,000. "

2003-12-08T10:08:00.000-05:00

Physicians pick up dentist slack in oral health care lack:

"Troubled by access problems for low-income children, health care leaders in North Carolina got federal funding to train physicians and nurses to deliver preventive oral health services to high-risk children up to age 3"

"'One of the solutions is to introduce the mouth back into the body, rather than have it just be the purview of the dentist,' said Wendy Wolf, MD, MPH, executive director of the nonprofit Maine Health Access Foundation,..."

(Maybe it's time for dentists to be trained only as teeth technicians, getting referrals from physicians schooled to detect cavities and provide nutritional couseling, beneficial to body and tooth. Very few dentists use their medical training to treat the tooth as if it's part of a body that needs to be nourished with nutrients - not just drugged with fluoride)

2003-12-08T08:50:00.000-05:00

Mad Scientists

2003-12-08T08:17:00.000-05:00

News:

"'The vast majority of drugs - more than 90 per cent - only work in 30 or 50 per cent of the people,' "

2003-12-07T08:03:00.000-05:00

Scotsman.com News - International - Experts predict catastrophe in Congo:

"fluoride from the gas has seeped into the local water supply, resulting in levels over 10 times the recommended maximum. As a result nearly every villager in Sake, a bustling market 20 minutes from Goma, are affected by brown, sometimes rotting teeth"

2003-11-21T08:10:00.000-05:00

Cavities Double After Fluoridation, Kentucky Study:

In 1987, 28% of Kentucky preschoolers developed cavities. That number increased to 47% in 2001, according to the July/August 2003 journal, 'Pediatric Dentistry.'(1) "

Over 96% of Kentucky water systems add fluoride since a 1977 Kentucky law compelled water suppliers serving over 1,500 individuals to fluoridate, aimed to reduce tooth decay by up to 60%(2)(3). Fluoride supplements are prescribed to children without fluoridated water(3).

2003-11-21T07:39:00.000-05:00

American Dental Association new president's speech:

"The ultimate goals, said Dr. Sekiguchi, are to 'reach new heights in health care for all patients and to be so relevant for our members that the ADA will be indispensable.' "

2003-11-19T07:04:00.000-05:00

ADA.org: ADA News: CDA Foundation partnership to receive $7 million oral health education grant:

"'And it will substantially strengthen our leadership position in oral health in California and with our public health community.' "

2003-11-19T07:02:00.000-05:00

ADA.org: National museum of dentistry:

" we have truly reached a lofty goal that will bring greater public awareness of the national importance of our work,' "

2003-11-16T14:42:00.000-05:00

ADA.org: ADA News: CDA Foundation partnership to receive $7 million oral health education grant:

They won't use it to "drill and fill" but to disperse among themselves to
"...substantially strengthen our leadership position in oral health in California and with our public health community."

2003-11-14T08:26:00.000-05:00

Professional monopoly, social covenant, and access to oral health care in the United States:

"Lack of access to oral care is a severe problem in the United States with over one-third of the population lacking dental insurance. In this group, 32 million people lack dental insurance and access to public dental services (Medicaid or Medicare), and 7 million of them need dental care. In some high-risk populations, such as Native Americans, two-thirds have unmet dental needs. Only 1 percent of Medicaid-eligible babies have a dental examination before twelve months of age. In this paper the social covenant of the dental profession is examined and suggestions made for improving access to care through improved efficiency. It is proposed that 1) private dentists should accept 5 percent per annum of their patients for indigent care funded by improved efficiency from utilizing allied dental providers (ADP) in new roles, and 2) ADP should have their own independent state boards. If dentists refuse to honor their social covenant, then ADP should be allowed to practice independently, breaking the professional monopoly"

2003-11-14T08:22:00.000-05:00

Centering on …Dentistry as Canary?
: "The United States faces a hidden health care epidemic of near-crisis proportion. But this epidemic has not received the attention it needs or deserves. The crisis is in oral health"

"The (dentistry) profession must turn its enormous energy and talent to creating new ways of organizing and delivering oral health care. This pathway is reminiscent of the crusade for fluoridated water supplies..."

2003-11-14T08:16:00.000-05:00

JournalEditorial
Necessary care in a broken system: The health care delivery crisis and oral health:

"The poor oral health of Americans only presages the future for other diseases that progress due to diminished coverage"

2003-10-24T09:32:00.000-04:00

About 4 million children aged 2 - 17 have untreated cavities because they can't afford a dentist, according to a gov't report ( http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_10/sr10_213.pdf )

American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry takes Coca Cola's $1 million grant and they help sell Coca Cola product fluoridated bottled water

http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/ap_newfullstory.asp?ID=22448

The California Dental Association to reimburse the Metropolitan Water District roughly $5 Million for retrofitting its systems to fluoridate California communities

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2003/10/15/news/top_stories/10_14_0319_55_21.txt

"It may...be that fluoridation of drinking water does not have a strong protective effect against early childhood caries (ECC)," reports dentist Howard Pollick, University of California, and colleagues, in the Winter 2003 Journal of Public Health Dentistry(1).

Pollick, a staunch fluoridation proponent and co-chairman of the California Fluoridation Task Force, found that poor children had the most cavities regardless of fluoridation status.

http://www.enn.com/direct/display-release.asp?objid=D1D1364B000000F56F7E81925727268A

2003-10-20T19:37:00.000-04:00

San Francisco Water Board Unveils Hetch Hetchy Bottled Water
Mayor purchases first bottle

San Francisco spends $2,500,000 on a fluoridation facility

Staff Recommendation: Approve the plans and specifications for Contract No. WD-2413, Sunol Valley Fluoridation Facility, and authorize the General Manager of Public Utilities to advertise, receive and evaluate bids. The engineer?s estimate is $2,500,000

and then sells and drinks fluoride free water
"Hetch Hetchy Mountain WaterTM is bottled in a convenient half-liter size. The bottled water contains no additives and is micron-filtered and ozonated to comply with state and federal regulations."

http://sfwater.org/main.cfm/MC_ID/5/MSC_ID/72

Here the mayor and water department personnel drinking fluoride-free bottled water while legislating that everyone else drink fluoride.

http://sfwater.org/detail.cfm/MSC_ID/72/MTO_ID/106/MC_ID/5/C_ID/1400/holdSession/1

2003-10-18T12:08:00.000-04:00

Joint Center for Poverty Research Newsletter:

"The most common physical ailments reported by primary caregivers were severe obesity, arthritic conditions, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. Among children, the most common conditions were severe asthma, obesity, seizures, and lead poisoning. Chronic dental problems were also very common for adults and children in many families, particularly in San Antonio. "

2003-10-18T11:56:00.000-04:00

SFWATER.ORG : 10/14/03 Agenda San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

Staff Recommendation: Approve the plans and specifications for Contract No. WD-2413, Sunol Valley Fluoridation Facility, and authorize the General Manager of Public Utilities to advertise, receive and evaluate bids. The engineer’s estimate is $2,500,000

2003-09-21T07:20:00.000-04:00

"Only the best-quality dentistry ..." Oh, really?
: "The Gallup poll shows us (dentists) slipping from No. 2 to No. 8 in the eyes of the public when evaluating all professions in terms of honesty, integrity, and trustworthiness. "

2003-09-17T08:23:00.000-04:00

A Pediatric Dentist's Perspective: "G.V. Black, a father of modern dentistry, observed in the late 1800s that a child with decay before age four had decay throughout life"

2003-09-17T06:56:00.000-04:00

Follow the Money

"The Company that taught generations of Americans to brush their teeth with fluoride is poised to bite off an even larger challenge: encouraging America -- and the world -- to floss.
The Procter & Gamble Company"

2003-09-08T17:38:00.000-04:00

http://www.ihs.gov/publicinfo/publications/healthprovider/issues/prov1001.pdf

"pits and fissures are the most common areas affected by decay"

2003-09-08T17:27:00.000-04:00

Case Dental School Seals Legacy Students' Teeth; :

"Fluoride from drinking water adheres to the smooth outer tooth surfaces but does not work well on rough surfaces. "

2003-08-28T07:06:00.000-04:00

Hartford Advocate: What's in your Bottled Water?:

Dentists say that drinking bottled water leads to tooth decay because of its lack of fluoride. However, when the Kansas Dept of Health and Environment actually tested bottled water, they found all 80 samples they tested had detectable levels of fluoride.

"Another area of potential concern is the fact that no agency calls for testing of bottled water after it leaves its initial packaging plant, leaving some to wonder what happens during months of storage and transport. To begin to examine this question, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment tested 80 samples of bottled water from retail stores and manufacturers. All 80 of the samples had detectable levels of chlorine, fluoride and sodium. "

2003-08-26T17:07:00.000-04:00

National Smile Week:

"The Fluoridated School Milk Scheme makes cartons of fluoride milk, ordinary school milk with a small amount of fluoride added, available to primary school children in Sheffield, at the same cost as ordinary milk. "

2003-08-17T04:40:00.000-04:00

fluoride connundrum

: "Dr. Kotlow said, 'If you take fluoride with milk, you don't absorb the fluoride because fluoride forms calcium fluoride, which just passes through the body"

2003-08-11T08:07:00.000-04:00

Medical History of President Abraham Lincoln: "A dentist broke off part of Lincoln's jaw bone while pulling a tooth -- without anesthesia [4a].

dentist phobia
It has been said that Lincoln was afraid of dentists (see episode above for a good reason why he might have been). In 1862 Lincoln developed a severe toothache and consulted Dr. G. S. Wolf, who had an office near the White House. As Wolf prepared to pull the tooth, Lincoln asked him to wait. Lincoln 'took a container of chloroform from his pocket, inhaled it deeply, and sleepily gave the signal for the dentist to proceed' [4a].
"

2003-08-11T08:05:00.000-04:00

Before fluoridation:

"When Jefferson died at age 84, he had never lost an [adult] tooth [2a]. Comment: Having great teeth is a sign of hereditary fructase deficiency, but swift consultation of a few Jefferson biographies fails to disclose an aversion to sweets, the other cardinal symptom of the disorder"

2003-08-04T07:04:00.000-04:00

Fluoridated Water Damages Teeth: "Dr. J.M. Garcia, a dentist in Falfurrias, issued a letter stating that among his Hebbronville patients, he has seen health effects from high exposure to fluoride.
Their teeth suffer severe discoloration and fluorosis, where 'teeth often become soft and show evidence of excessive wear under normal masticatory forces,' Garcia wrote. "

2003-08-04T06:53:00.000-04:00

Anchorage Daily News | Fluoridated Water kills Alaskan Man: "In 1992, a 41-year-old man died and more than 250 other people fell ill after drinking from a well poisoned by fluoride. The water had more than 40 times the normal limit for fluoride, added to prevent tooth decay.
Investigators cited a malfunctioning pump as well as inattention by the village and its water plant operators."

2003-07-30T14:16:00.000-04:00

BDJ | The effectiveness of routine dental checks: a systematic review of the evidence base: "There is no existing high quality evidence to support or refute the practice of encouraging six-monthly dental checks in adults and children."