Dentists Oppose Fluoridation; You Should Too

Two hundred and eleven dentists signed a statement asking Congress to
ban water fluoridation. And, according to the Wealthy Dentist, 15% of
dentists opposed water fluoridation.

Professionals Urge End to Water Fluoridation

New York - February 24, 2008 -- In a statement first released August
9, 2007, almost 2,000 professionals urge Congress to stop water
fluoridation until Congressional hearings are conducted. They cite new
scientific evidence that fluoridation, long promoted to fight tooth
decay, is ineffective and has serious health risks. (http://
http://www.fluorideaction.org/statem...gust.2007.html)

Signers include a Nobel Prize winner, three members of the prestigious
2006 National Research Council (NRC) panel that reported on fluoride's
toxicology, two officers in the Union representing professionals at
EPA headquarters, the President of the International Society of
Doctors for the Environment, and hundreds of medical, dental,
academic, scientific and environmental professionals, worldwide.

Signer Dr. Arvid Carlsson, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for
Medicine, says, "Fluoridation is against all principles of modern
pharmacology. It's really obsolete."

An Online Action Petition to Congress in support of the Professionals'
Statement is available on FAN's web site, www.fluorideaction.org/congress
..

"The NRC report dramatically changed scientific understanding of
fluoride's health risks," says Paul Connett, PhD, Executive Director,
Fluoride Action Network. "Government officials who continue to
promote fluoridation must testify under oath as to why they are
ignoring the powerful evidence of harm in the NRC report," he added.

An Assistant NY State Attorney General calls the report "the most up-
to-date expert authority on the health effects of fluoride exposure."

The Professionals' Statement also references:

-- The new American Dental Association policy recommending infant
formula NOT be prepared with fluoridated water.
-- The CDC's concession that the predominant benefit of fluoride is
topical not systemic.
-- CDC data showing that dental fluorosis, caused by fluoride over-
exposure, now impacts one third of American children.
-- Major research indicating little difference in decay rates between
fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities.
-- A Harvard study indicating a possible link between fluoridation and
bone cancer.
-- The silicofluoride chemicals used for fluoridation are contaminated
industrial waste and have never been FDA- approved for human
ingestion.

The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a DC watchdog, revealed that a
Harvard professor concealed the fluoridation/bone cancer connection
for three years. EWG President Ken Cook states, "It is time for the US
to recognize that fluoridation has serious risks that far outweigh any
minor benefits, and unlike many other environmental issues, it's as
easy to end as turning off a valve at the water plant."

Further, researchers reporting in the Oct 6 2007 British Medical
Journal indicate that fluoridation, touted as a safe cavity
preventive, never was proven safe or effective and may be unethical.
(1)

Partially, as a result of the professionals' statement, at least one
city, Cobleskill NY, stopped 54 years of water fluoridation. See:
http://www.fluoridealert.org/news/2998.html

In New York State, the Central Bridge Water District stopped
fluoridation in 2006, Homer in 2005, Canton in 2003. Oneida rejected
fluoridation in 2002. Ithaca rejected fluoridation in 2002. Johnstown
rejected it in 1999. Before that several towns in Nassau County
stopped fluoridation. Suffolk County rejected fluoridation in the
1990's.

Many communities rejected or stopped fluoridation over the years. See:
http://www.fluoridealert.org/communities.htm

On October 2, Juneau Alaska voters rejected fluoridation despite the
American Dental Association's $150,000 political campaign to return
fluoride into the water supply after the legislative body voted it
out.


References:

(1) "Adding fluoride to water supplies," British Medical Journal, KK
Cheng, Iain Chalmers, Trevor A. Sheldon, October 6, 2007