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Fluoride damage to children's teeth
NEW YORK STATE COALITION
OPPOSED TO FLUORIDATION, INC.
Participating Member of
International Network for Safe Drinking Water
NEWS RELEASE: MORE
GOVERNMENT RESEARCH SHOWS FLUORIDATION CREATES MORE HARM THAN GOOD
Another New York State
Department of Health study shows that children in fluoridated Newburgh, New
York, have no less tooth decay but significantly more dental fluorosis than
children from never? fluoridated Kingston, New York. Newburgh and Kingston's
children have been examined periodically, with results published since 1945,
in order to demonstrate that fluoridation reduces tooth decay. This new
research shows the experiment has failed.
Published in
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, June 1999, New York State
Department of Health dentist, Dr. ).V. Kumar, and associates report that
"continuous exposure to water fluoridation had an observable effect on
dental fluorosis."
Dental fluorosis is white,
yellow or brown permanent tooth stains; in severe cases teeth actually
crumble. In fact, they report that three children with unusually large
amounts of decay also had severe fluorosis - the worst fluorosis category.
Kumar previously reported this data in the New York State Dental
Journal and American Journal of Public Health in 1998. Kumar found the
risk of dental fluorosis is even greater in African American Children.
Kumar's data corroborates
recently published research ("A Re-examination of the Pre-eruptive and
Post-eruptive Mechanism of the Anti-Caries Effects of Fluoride: is there any
anti-caries benefit from swallowing fluoride?" by Dr. Hardy Limeback,
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 1999) that shows
fluoride's decay preventing effects are mostly topical (on the outside of
the tooth) and that very little, if any, swallowed fluoride incorporates
into teeth as a shield against decay, as has been theorised since
fluoridation began. But swallowed fluoride builds up in the teeth and bones
which can lead to disfiguring dental fluorosis or crippling skeletal
fluorosis.
Dr. Paul Connett,
Chemistry Professor at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, says,
"Fluoridation of public water supplies must cease. The evidence shows
clearly that fluoridation does more harm than good."
Dr. Kumar's unheeded advice
has been for dentists and physicians to cut back on fluoride and to
prescribe fluoride based upon a patient's total fluoride exposure.
"How can anyone
calculate a child's total fluoride exposure when there are unknown
amounts of fluoride in virtually all the foods we eat, mainly because
they are processed with fluoridated water," says lawyer Paul Beeber,
president of the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation.
"U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency scientists are calling for an end to fluoridation. It
must be stopped across the country like we have done on Long Island, New
York, with the help of our legislators," he says.
Results:- Community
Dent. Oral Epidemiol, 1999 June 27. "Children examined in 1996 were
at higher risk for both questionable and very mild to severe dental
fluorosis if they received fluoride from water or daily tablet use, or
started brushing before the age of 2 years. The increase in risk from 1986
to 1995 was greater for African-American children. CONCLUSION: This analysis
showed that the risk of developing dental fluorosis did not decline over
time in these communities. Continuous exposure to water fluoridation had an
observable effect on dental fluorosis."
Dental fluorosis has been
researched over many years by many scientists except dental, political and
commercial promoters of fluoride who choose to ignore such evidence in place
of financial fluoride promotion.
Animal studies have
revealed the action of fluoride on bone. Krook et al, Department of
Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, New York,
USA, produced many studies in this field.
A "Summary" of their paper,
1996, "Absorbance of Fluoride By Bone", stated (Fluoride 1996):-
"Adsorption of
fluoride into normal bovine compact bone in vitro produced the brown
mottling that is characteristic of fluoride. The data show that cell
activity is not required to produce this sign of fluorotoxicosis. This
suggests that fluoride induced cell injury in bone or dentin may result
from the local release of fluoride that is incorporated into the apatite
phase of hard tissues."
They also stated:-
"The main
mineral phase of hard tissues (bone, dentin and cementum) is calcium
hydroxyapatite. When fluoride is available, it replaces the hydroxyl ions,
producing calcium fluoropatite. This causes "brown mottling" of hard
tissues as described by Johnson. [1]
This brown bottling is used as a diagnostic indicator of the disease known
as fluorosis." [2,3,4]
References:
1. Johnson LC. Histogenesis
and mechanisms in the development of osteofluorosis. In: Simons JH (Ed)
Fluorine Chemistry. Vol IV. Academic Press, New York and London 1965 pp
424-441.
2. Krook L, Maylin GA.
Industrial fluoride pollution. Chronic fluoride poisoning in Cornwall island
cattle. The Cornell Veterinarian 69 (Supplement 8) 1-70 1979.
3. Krook L, Maylin GA,
Lillie )H, Wallace R5. Dental fluorosis in cattle. The Cornell Veterinarian
73 340-362 1983.
4. Maylin GA, Eckerlin RH,
Krook L. Fluoride intoxication in dairy calves. The Cornell Veterinarian
77 84-98 1987.
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