More Government Research Shows Fluoridation Creates More Harm Than Good
HICKSVILLE, N.Y., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/
-- 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.
J. 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 the 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 theorized 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.
CONTACT:
Paul Beeber, J.D., of New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc.,
516-433-8882, or fax, 516-433-8932, NYSCOF@aol.com;
or Paul Connett, Ph.D., of St. Lawrence University, 315-379-9200, or fax,
315-379-0448, wastenot@northnet.org
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