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Fluoridation not answer

Opinion, Mansfield Courier - Wednesday, January 29, 2003

YOUR article on dental decay (Back to School feature, Mansfield Courier, January 15, 2003) requires some scientific correctness.

To say it is "well documented" that fluoridation significantly reduces dental decay is unproven and world studies show claims as pure fluoridation propaganda.

If you need proof, just look at nonfluoridated Brisbane where their children's teeth are better than fluoridated Melbourne.

Brisbane council 1998 held the Lord Mayor's taskforce on Fluoridation. The taskforce was made up of doctors, dentists and health officers.

After a year of investigation into fluoridation the taskforce voted not to fluoridate Brisbane because the dental fluoride propaganda was not scientifically-convincing and no benefit was obvious.

Consider the Victorian government Health department supplying dentists with large posters in 1998 for display outside their rooms stating: "There's a better way, seal kids teeth against decay!"

Of course it is a world practice to force children to have sealants placed on their teeth - to stop teeth decay.

We feel sure the dental practice of sealants on children's teeth is standard dental treatment in Mansfield.

G. S. R. Walker, Brighton.

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