Fluoride Damages Teeth, New Warning By Dentists

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) website 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 evaluated 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) ada/prof/resources/ebd/reviews/fluoride_supplements.asp


2)
ncbi.nlm.nih/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Ci


3) cdc/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5014a1.htm


4)
ncbi.nlm.nih/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&T


5) fluorideresearch/381/files/38144-47.pdf


6) cdc/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/figures/s403a1t23.gif


7) fluoridedangers.blogspot/2005/12/fluoride-never-fda-


8) Journal of Public Health Dentistry, Fall 1999, Brian Burt
tinyurl/2bnoff


9) consensus.nih/2001/2001DentalCaries115html.htm


10) newmediaexplorer/chris/Pizzo-2007.pdf


New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc.

orgsites/ny/nyscof