By Charles Weber, MS in soil science
—-Fluoride has been added to water in the form of hexafluorosilicic acid (an industrial waste product) in the hope that it would reduce tooth decay. However it is a poison that has some serious side effects, badly affecting almost every organ in the body and does not reduce tooth decay in permanent teeth (has graphs) nor even in first teeth and The decline in tooth cavities has been the same in fluoridated and non fluoridated countries. Europe is only 2% fluoridated but has tooth decay similar to or less than the USA, which is 64% fluoridated as of 2008. A study showed higher number of cavities in a fluoridated village than in nearby non fluoridated villages in South Africa. [Grobler] Fluoride is more poisonous than lead and only marginally less so than arsenic.
Fluoridation is absurd from a viewpoint of ethics, safety, science, control of dose, greater harm to the poor,increase of dental cost, poisoning of soil, and grave damage to almost every organ. Pushing this madness by lobbyists and dentists is a disgrace.
—-SIDE EFFECTS (the most serious is dementia disease) —-The side effect that is the most obvious is adiscoloration of the teeth called fluorosis (includes treatments) [Pendrys]. This is inevitable if the dose of fluoride is only a little over optimum. 40% of US citizens aged 12-15 have fluorosis according to the Center for disease control. This figure must be more than 60% for those drinking fluoridated water. This is very easy to happen to anyone who drinks a lot of water, say for kidney problems or for baby formula. Toxicity is worse in hot climates because more water is consumed. It is also likely if someone eats or drinks food high in fluoride such as tea [Gulati], coffee, reconstituted fruit juice, grapes or raisins that have had fluoride insecticide (cryolite), dried eggs, soy beans, and carbonated drinks. See this article for a very long discussion of fluorosis of teeth and bone,Fagin gives fluoride content of some foods [Fagin]. You may see contents of all foods here.
—- While the fluorosis effect is fairly trivial other than appearance, the cost of correcting it can be as much as $15,000. This cost should be made good by the water companies and insecticide manufacturers. The cost of dental repair is significantly greater in fluoridated British communities than in non fluoridated and the number of dentists required per population is greater. This is probably primarily because of the cost of correcting fluorosis. Since 1950, it has been found that fluorides do little to prevent pit and fissure tooth decay, a fact that even the dental community has acknowledged [Gray 1987; and Pinkham 1999]. This is significant because pit and fissure tooth decay represents up to 85% of the tooth decay experienced by children today [Gray 1987]. Pit and fissure decay is best prevented with sealants. Studies that seemed to show less number of cavities in children from fluoride did so because the tooth eruption process was delayed by one of the poisonous affects of fluoride. The number of eventual cavities were the same.
—- Fluorides cause premature aging of the human body [Leone] [Erikson].
—-A more serious effect is irreversible bone deformation [Fagin, with pictures] [Reddy] and increases of bone fractures [Orcel][Chachra]. 99% of the body’s fluoride burden is in the bones. There are villages in India where two thirds of the people are crippled by fluorosis of the bone caused by less than 5 parts per million of fluoride.
Fluoride interferes with the hydroxylation of proline to hydroxyproline [Sharma]. Therefore fluoride exposure disrupts the synthesis of collagen and leads to the breakdown of collagen in bone, tendon, muscle, skin, cartilage, lungs, kidney, trachea and arteries. [Susheela and Mukerjee]. That is the type of damage you’d expect to see in connective tissue disorders. It will also cause damage to ligaments resembling arthritis. It has been found that the elastic properties of the ascending aorta are impaired in patients with endemic fluorosis [Varol].
—- Fluoride inhibits the immune cells at those times when an infection activates them [Clark] [Weissman]. —-An even more serious effect is bone cancer in young boys, but for some strange reason, not girls. During the growth spurt during 6 to 8 years the bone cancer rate is 8 times higher in boys living in fluoridated areas than in non poisoned water areas [Bassin]. Fluoride confuses the immune system and causes it to attack the body’s own tissues, and increases the tumor growth rate in cancer prone individuals [Taylor]. There is increased incidence of melanotic tumors following treatment with sodium fluoride [Herskowitz]. In view of this, adding fluoride to water is breaking the former Delaney amendment law prohibiting adding cancer causing chemicals to food. That law should be reestablished. >>MORE<<
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