New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation

BDJ | The effectiveness of routine dental checks: a systematic review of the evidence base: "There is no existing high quality evidence to support or refute the practice of encouraging six-monthly dental checks in adults and children."

infobrix: "But even if it did work, drinking fluoride to prevent cavities is like swallowing bandages to cure a broken arm. To solve tooth decay the government has opted not for a campaign against the undisputed culprits - like fast food and sugar - but for mass medication with a useless medicine. "

2theadvocate.com - Louisiana dentists go to Jamaica as volunteers 07/30/03: "Dental disease is a large problem in Jamaica because the local diet is heavy in sugar, with residents drinking a popular local beverage -- essentially frozen sugar water -- to keep cool in their unair-conditioned homes, Bruns said.
Because few homes have running water, authorities have fluoridated table salt to help fight dental disease. 'But the children don't get much of the fluoride, because they don't have a lot of salt in their diet,' Bruns said. 'It might make more sense to fluoridate the sugar.'"

2theadvocate.com - Louisiana dentists go to Jamaica as volunteers 07/30/03:

"'We love to be able to do some good,' Bennett-Bruns said. 'We're often asked why we don't provide this kind of free dental care for people here in the United States.'
Bennett-Bruns said she and her husband try to find ways to help the Baton Rouge area through various volunteer work. But because of professional licensing requirements and liability issues, it's not easy to provide free care to American patients in the way that it's delivered in Jamaica.
'I would love to be able to do this here, but it's not possible,' Bennett-Bruns said."

CALCIUM CARBONATE:

"Fluoride Not more than 50 mg/kg"

Hidden Sources of Fluoride

PHOSPHORIC ACID: "1.25 g of the sample meets the requirements of the Limit Test
Fluoride Not more than 10 mg/kg"

A national agenda to increase access to oral health services for Head Start populations: "Oral health disparities continue to exist in children enrolled in Head Start and Early Head Start programs, despite decades of efforts to address the problem"

The Japan Times Online:

"Japanese tap water, unlike that in the United States and many other developed countries, doesn't contain fluoride, an additive once widely believed to prevent dental cavities. Now, though, there is growing public resistance to its introduction into domestic supplies following recent reports from UNICEF and other respected organizations suggesting that the mineral may actually be toxic"

Fluoride Can't Protect Against Sugar

"'I see young Marines almost daily who have cavities in all their teeth because they drink high-sugar beverages regularly in an effort to stay hydrated,' he said. 'They're the ones that seem to get more cavities than anybody else. Those who choose to drink water between meals have less chance to get cavities.'"

Fluoridated New York City


"Researchers report about one third of northern Manhattan's pre-school children studied averaged 6.39 decayed or filled tooth surfaces"

Non-fluoridated Hawaii:

"The rate of tooth decay among children ages 5 to 9 in Hawaii, at 3.9 decayed teeth per child, is more than twice the national average of 1.9 decayed teeth per child. "

Fluoride Ineffective:

"Abstract: Results with 9,566 children who participated for four years in a 10-site, school-based preventive care program indicated that dental health lessons, brushing and flossing, fluoride tablets and mouthrinsing, and professionally applied topical fluorides were not especially effective in reducing a clinically significant amount of dental decay. This was true when the procedures were used singly or in combination"

Sugar babies

"Joshua is among a rising number of young children and teens suffering from dental decay, some dentists say. They report filling more cavities, installing more crowns and pulling more baby teeth than in previous decades.


At the root of the problem, they say, are sugary foods and super-sized drinks that have become more accessible to children through school vending machines, juice boxes, quick stops and fast-food restaurants.


Also to blame are sugary drinks and foods marketed as "healthy," such as sports drinks, clear drinks, fruit punches and trail mixes and increasingly busy schedules that have made dental maintenance a lower priority, they say. "



"Over the years, dentists have developed preventive treatments to combat tooth decay, including fluoride rinses and toothpaste, which harden enamel, making it more difficult for acid to wear teeth down; brushing to reduce plaque; flossing to reduce tooth decay between teeth; and the application of sealant, a plastic filling material that flows into and seals the crevices of molars, preventing acid from penetrating and causing deep cavities.
But those won't stop tooth decay if kids sip sodas all day and fail to brush, dentists say. "

"Infants past

the age of 12 months should not consume formula made with fluoridated water."

Canadian Dental Hygienists Association

http://www.cdha.ca/content/newsroom/pdf/ProbeFluoride.pdf

Parents should use ready-to-feed formulas or mix non-fluoridated bottled water into formula concentrate

“Risk factors for Dental Fluorosis: A review of the recent literature,” Pediatric Dentistry, 4/22/2000, by Dr. Ana K. Mascarenhas

"Fluoride
It is used to produce aluminum, steel, phosphate fertilizers, phosphoric acid, glass, ceramic and brick products.

Symptoms of exposure: Joint pain and stiffness, calcified ligaments, bone damage, deformed spine and joints, muscular wasting, compression of spinal cord. "

Contaminants And Health - from Tampa Bay Online

Editorial in the Journal of the American Dental Association

"It is estimated that 84% of the caries experience in the 5- to 17-year-old population involves tooth surfaces with pits and fissures. Although fluorides cannot be expected appreciabl to redcue our incidence of caries on these surfaces, sealants can."

Irish Headlines
Fluoridation report 'suppressed'
10/07/2003 - 07:42:57


"The report by the Food Safety Authority, which was given to the Forum on Fluoridation, advised mothers not to use tap water in babies' bottles because of fluoride levels.

However, the document was not mentioned in the forum's final report, which told the Government that fluoride levels in the water supply posed no health risk. "

IOL: Fluoridation report 'suppressed'

"The lack of difference in caries prevalence between
rural and urban children is puzzling because, in
addition to lower dental care utilization, children
residing in rural areas are more likely than urban
children to use well water,which usually has a low
fluoride content."

Oral Health Status of Children and Adolescents
by Rural Residence, United States
Clemencia M. Vargas, DDS, PhD; Cynthia R. Ronzio, PhD; and Kathy L. Hayes, DMD, MPH Journal of Rural Health, Summer 2003

http://www.nrharural.org/JRH/JRH19-3/rurh-19-03-260.pdf

"There is a subset of children who experience high rates of tooth decay even though they live in fluoridated communities. Fluoride cannot be, therefore, the sole solution."

Panel on Caries Vaccine
Final Report
January 28, 2003
Sponsored by:
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
National Institutes of Health


Panel on Caries Vaccine

"Given the real-world barriers to a caries vaccine, the panel suggested that NIDCR consider using its resources to develop alternative means of solving the caries problem."

Ireland's Forum on Fluoridation Report

"An increase in the rate of breast-feeding in this country would contribute significantly to a reduction of the occurrence of dental fluorosis"

Forum on Fluoride 2002:

Fluoride Flaws, by Bob Woffinden
Wednesday June 25, 2003
The Guardian

SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Society | Bob Woffinden: Fluoride flaws:

"More recent studies published in 2000-01 of communities in Finland, Cuba, Canada and east Germany, which abandoned fluoridation, found that rates of dental decay did not rise (and, indeed, continued to decline) afterwards. The city of Basle in Switzerland recently stopped fluoridation, partly because there was no evidence that rates of tooth decay were lower there than in non-fluoridated Swiss cities. In Western Europe, only England, Ireland and a tiny part of Spain retain fluoridation programmes. "

Bottled water a cancer risk
Source: Coventry Evening Telegraph
Publication date: 2003-07-03


A REPORT out this week has warned that drinking a bottle of bottled water each day adds significantly to the intake of allegedly cancer-causing fluoride.
The findings have been compiled by PROOF!, the monthly consumer report which analyses health products.

Publication date: 2003-07-03


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Fluoridation/fluoride websites:

http://www.fluoridealert.org
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D18721943
http://www.fluoridation.com
http://www.bruha.com/fluoride
http://www.fluoride-journal.com
http://pmeiers.bei.t-online.de
http://www.garynull.com/documents/dental/fluoride/fluoride%5Findex.htm
http://www.njsafewater.org

http://www.npwa.freeserve.co.uk
http://www.glenwalker.net
http://www.fluoride.org.uk
http://www.fluoridefree.com
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rmasters/AHABS/welcome.htm
http://www.SLweb.org/
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/fluoridation

http://www.zerowasteamerica.org/fluoride.htm
http://www.penweb.org/fluoride/
http://emporium.turnpike.net/P/PDHA/health.htm

http://www.nofluoride.com
http://www.keepers-of-the-well.org/hearings-investigations.html

http://www.rvi.net/~fluoride
http://www.fluoridefree.com

http://www.fluoride.org.za


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