Monday - Charleston Gazette Section D - was the final installment of Eric Eyre's series focusing on oral health problems in West Virginia. You must go on line or find a Gazette paper and view this series. It makes great dinner / debate conversation.
Eyre reminds us that 20 percent of West Virginia's population live in households NOT connected to a public water system and use well water instead. West Virginia has the sixth lowest percentage of people using public water in the nation. This means 20% of our population has no Fluoride treatment. The CDC has listed water fluoridation as one of the 10 greatest public health achievements of the past 100 years.
If you haven't read the series please do, and if you haven't seen your dentist for regular cleanings, make it a priority and start now . . . . don't loose your teeth . . . someone gave me a
needlepoint pillow that states: A tooth is more valuable than diamonds!
Start now to protect the dental health care of your children. hjh
This afternoon, I'll be taking photos of BLENKO GLASS at the Art Shop in Taylor's Bookstore, The Clay Center and at the Purple Moon on Capitol Street. We'll be posting information about the BLENKO available at both sites and photos of the BLenko.
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Fluoridation Doing More Harm Than Good, Studies Show
New York – May 10 – Contrary to belief, fluoridation is damaging teeth with little cavity reduction, according to a review of recent studies reported in Clinical Oral Investigations.(1)
Pizzo and colleagues reviewed English-language fluoridation studies published from January 2001 to June 2006 and write, “Several epidemiological studies conducted in fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities suggest that [fluoridation] may be unnecessary for caries prevention…”
They also report that fluoride-damaged teeth spiked upwards to 51% from the 10-12% found over 60 years ago in “optimally” fluoridated communities. Dental fluorosis is white-spotted, yellow, brown-stained and/or pitted teeth.
Fluoridation began in 1945 when dentists thought that ingested fluoride incorporated into children’s developing tooth enamel to prevent cavities. However, Pizzo’s group reports that fluoride ingestion confers little, if any, benefit and fails to reduce oral health disparities in low-income Americans.
Also, any difference in fluoride tooth enamel surface concentration between fluoridated and low-fluoridated areas is minimal. And the relationship between higher enamel fluoride levels to less tooth decay was not found.
“Some risk of increasing fluorosis may be attributed to the ingestion of powdered infant formula reconstituted with fluoridated water… [and] foods and beverages processed in fluoridated areas… Furthermore, the use of dietary fluoride supplements during the first 6 years of life is associated with a significant increase in the risk of developing fluorosis,” they write.
Lawyer Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation says, “Recent news reports claiming fluoride-free bottled water caused the cavity increase trends in toddlers are implausible because rising fluorosis rates clearly indicate that children are over-fluoridated, not under-fluoridated.”
“There’s no dispute that too much fluoride damages teeth, actually making them more decay-prone. Research is indicated to see if fluoride is causing the cavity escalation,” says Beeber.
Some studies Pizzo reviewed focused on communities that stopped water fluoridation. “…after the cessation, caries prevalence did not rise, remained almost the same or even decreased further,” writes Pizzo’s group.
“In most European countries, where [water fluoridation] has never been adopted, a substantial decline [75%] in caries prevalence has been reported in the last decades,” they report.
To avoid dental fluorosis, the American Dental Association and the Centers for Disease Control advise against mixing concentrated infant formulas with fluoridated water.
“Fluoride is bone- and health-damaging as well,” says Beeber.
Reference:
1) "Community Water Fluoridation and Caries Prevention: A Critical Review," Clinical Oral Investigations, by Giuseppe Pizzo & Maria R. Piscopo & Ignazio Pizzo &
Giovanna Giuliana 2007 Feb 27; [Epub ahead of print]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=17333303
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/Pizzo-2007.pdf
New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation
PO Box 263
Old Bethpage, NY 11804
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof
http://www.FluorideAction.Net
http://www.FluorideResearch.Org
Fluoridation News Releases
http://tinyurl.com/6kqtu
Tooth Decay Crises in Fluoridated Areas
http://www.fluoridenews.blogspot.com/
hillary
do you flouride?
coz im doin whatever you
do?
and where ever you
work thats where im
bringing my cavities
or the cavities I'm trying to
develope.
Paul Jordan
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