USA - READER DOESN'T BUY INTO THE PRO-FLUORIDE DEBATE
READER DOESN'T BUY INTO THE PRO-FLUORIDE DEBATE
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Posted 21 hours ago
Sir:Regarding Hazel Millholland's letter Let's listen to the experts on the Fluoride issue. Ms. Millholland states correctly that there was only one speaker to defend the practice of adding fluoride to the water in a recent open forum at city hall. We have been fed misleading and inaccurate information for so many years that people are finally waking up and realizing that fluoride in our water is not the panacea for healthy teeth after all. It should be enough to stop the practice when we realize that fluoride is a deadly poison in the same category as arsenic and lead, but sadly, that fact alone is not enough.
The speaker told the audience that artificial water fluoridation has been adopted in 20
countries based on 140 studies. The studies used by proponents of fluoridation are outdated and use questionable evidence to support preconceived beliefs. There is much more recent, readily available, scientific evidence clearly showing the deleterious affects of fluoride on the body.
What is it that over 90 per cent of British Columbia and Quebec, all of Japan and China, 98 per cent of Europe, and over three quarters of the world's population in general know, that we don't, or refuse to accept. Of the 6.8 billion people living in the world today 6.4 billion (94 per cent) do not use artificial water fluoridation. Ms. Millholland writes that we "know through personal experiences the benefits of fluoridated water." I know few people in Sarnia who don't have cavities but I do know, from personal experience, that the mottling on far too many children's teeth, due to many years of fluoride ingestion, are the early signs of fluoride poisoning (fluorosis). She quotes Dr. Kirshen from the ODA who "estimates that for every dollar invested in water fluoridation it saves $38 in dental costs."
Research shows that there is no significant difference in the number of cavities in fluoridated and unfluoridated communities but dentists are equally busy in both. She continues that water fluoridation "benefits all residents in a community, regardless of age, socioeconomic status, education or employment." It doesn't benefit anyone but it does affect them.
Why is it that elected officials have taken over the job of medical professionals? Why is it that politicians, or in the case of a plebiscite, my next-door neighbours, get to decide what medication the rest of us should be taking. This is exactly the case with water fluoridation. Ms. Millholland is impressed that the Centres for Disease Control, "have cited the fluoridation of water as one of the top 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century." This has been a very successful marketing slogan for the CDC and the EPA over the years but there is no shred of evidence to back it up.
Like Hazel Millholland I would challenge everyone to get involved in the fluoridation debate but in doing so don't accept hearsay evidence from anyone calling themselves "experts." Get started by typing in "fluoridation" into a Google search.
-- Michael Czechowicz Sarnia
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Posted 21 hours ago
Sir:Regarding Hazel Millholland's letter Let's listen to the experts on the Fluoride issue. Ms. Millholland states correctly that there was only one speaker to defend the practice of adding fluoride to the water in a recent open forum at city hall. We have been fed misleading and inaccurate information for so many years that people are finally waking up and realizing that fluoride in our water is not the panacea for healthy teeth after all. It should be enough to stop the practice when we realize that fluoride is a deadly poison in the same category as arsenic and lead, but sadly, that fact alone is not enough.
The speaker told the audience that artificial water fluoridation has been adopted in 20
countries based on 140 studies. The studies used by proponents of fluoridation are outdated and use questionable evidence to support preconceived beliefs. There is much more recent, readily available, scientific evidence clearly showing the deleterious affects of fluoride on the body.
What is it that over 90 per cent of British Columbia and Quebec, all of Japan and China, 98 per cent of Europe, and over three quarters of the world's population in general know, that we don't, or refuse to accept. Of the 6.8 billion people living in the world today 6.4 billion (94 per cent) do not use artificial water fluoridation. Ms. Millholland writes that we "know through personal experiences the benefits of fluoridated water." I know few people in Sarnia who don't have cavities but I do know, from personal experience, that the mottling on far too many children's teeth, due to many years of fluoride ingestion, are the early signs of fluoride poisoning (fluorosis). She quotes Dr. Kirshen from the ODA who "estimates that for every dollar invested in water fluoridation it saves $38 in dental costs."
Research shows that there is no significant difference in the number of cavities in fluoridated and unfluoridated communities but dentists are equally busy in both. She continues that water fluoridation "benefits all residents in a community, regardless of age, socioeconomic status, education or employment." It doesn't benefit anyone but it does affect them.
Why is it that elected officials have taken over the job of medical professionals? Why is it that politicians, or in the case of a plebiscite, my next-door neighbours, get to decide what medication the rest of us should be taking. This is exactly the case with water fluoridation. Ms. Millholland is impressed that the Centres for Disease Control, "have cited the fluoridation of water as one of the top 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century." This has been a very successful marketing slogan for the CDC and the EPA over the years but there is no shred of evidence to back it up.
Like Hazel Millholland I would challenge everyone to get involved in the fluoridation debate but in doing so don't accept hearsay evidence from anyone calling themselves "experts." Get started by typing in "fluoridation" into a Google search.
-- Michael Czechowicz Sarnia
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