Kids Fluoride Overdosed- Cavities Increase, Gov't Report Reveals

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Kids Fluoride Overdosed - Cavities Increase, Gov't Report

Reveals

 

American Children are Fluoride Overdosed - Cavities Increase in

Primary Teeth: Gov't Report

 

New York †" September 29, 2005

 

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that 1/3 of six to

nineteen year-olds are fluoride overdosed and display dental

fluorosis - white spotted, yellow or brown and sometimes pitted

or crumbly teeth. (A) While, tooth decay increased in primary teeth

of two - five-year-olds. When the questionable category of fluorosis

is included, as it was in 1945, the report is more dire:

40% of 6-11-year-olds have fluorosis

49% of 12-15 year-olds have fluorosis

42% of 16-19-year-olds have fluorosis

 

The New York Times reports, " Dr. Burton L. Edelstein, a professor

of clinical dentistry at Columbia University...said, 'the dramatic

finding for young kids is that caries increased 15 percent between

the two periods... According to Dr. Edelstein, the best predictor

of cavities in permanent teeth is the number of cavities in baby

teeth. If this holds true, the next generation of adolescents could

see a significant decline in dental health. " (B) In 1945, dentists

projected water fluoridation would create fluorosis (discolored

teeth) in 10% of the population in its mildest form white spots.

 

But now, according to the CDC, not only do children and adolescents

suffer from fluoride overdose at rates three to four times over the

1945 projection, but 4% is severe fluorosis yellow or brown stained

and/or pitted or crumbly teeth, which actually decays faster than

healthy dentition.

 

Fluorosis occurs more often in blacks (42% see table 20) who also

have the highest tooth decay rates (43% of 2 †" 11 year-olds). (A)

“Since blacks have the most dental fluorosis and the most

cavities, if anything, this report shows fluoride is an ineffective

cavity fighter,says lawyer Paul Beeber, President, New York State

Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation. " We are shocked at current media

reports indicating children who drink bottled water lack fluoride

when researchers and government reports clearly indicate a fluoride

glut, " says Beeber.

 

" Cavities doubled in Kentucky after mandatory fluoridation to

prevent tooth decay, " says Beeber. © Infant formulas prepared with

fluoridated put babies at increased dental fluorosis risk, according

to research published in the Journal of the American College of

Nutrition (JACN) (1) and elsewhere. JACN study co-author Marshall

told Reuters Health, " Very young infants are unlikely to benefit

from the caries-prevention effects of fluoride…They may

be at increased risk of dental fluorosis. " (1a) To prevent this

tooth staining, researchers caution against mixing infant formulas

with fluoridated water.

 

Fluorosis is the too-late warning sign that babies overdosed on

fluoride, creating a new lucrative market for dentists - covering up

those fluorosed teeth (6). Neither a nutrient nor essential to

health, fluoride, can also damage bones.(1b) Researchers Marshall and

colleagues found more fluorosed teeth in children who consumed the

most fluoridated water either alone or through infant formulas (1).

In a different study, researchers, Brothwell and Limeback, urge

breastfeeding, or mixing infant formula with non-fluoridated water,

to avoid dental fluorosis, in a November 2003 Journal of Human

Lactation study. They found three times more fluorosis in children

consuming 1 milligram per liter fluoridated water compared to those

who drank non-fluoridated water.(2) Breastfeeding does not increase

cavity risk, according to a recent Journal of the American Dental

Association study (3).

 

Another researcher AK Mascarenhas, also advised parents to avoid

fluoridated water for infant formula preparation to prevent

fluorosis, in a 2000 Pediatric Dentistry study (4). At least eleven

other studies link reconstituted formula with fluorosis.(5a-k).

" Neither the CDC nor the American Dental Association, who heavily

promote fluoridation warns parents to avoid fluoridated water for

infant feeding. Why not? " asks lawyer Paul Beeber, President, New

York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation. “Are they protecting

fluoridation or children?†However, the Academy of General

Dentistry does recommend against mixing infant formulas with

fluoridated water. (6a) Formula prepared with optimally fluoridated

water provides 100 times more fluoride than the amount in breast milk

(7). And newborns do not have " fully developed renal handling

capacity for fluoride at this early stage of life... " (8) which can

lead to dangerous bone-fluoride build up and more. Not only is

infant fluoride intake risky, it's unnecessary. According to the

CDC, " Fluoride works primarily after teeth have erupted? " (9).

Further, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration never safety-tested

fluoride for ingestion (10). In 2000, after extensively reviewing

fluoride and health studies, a panel of British scientists

report, " We were unable to discover any reliable good-quality

evidence in the fluoridation literature world-wide, " (11)

despite incorrect news reports disseminated by prominent fluoride

proponents about this review (12).

 

Fluorosis intake can be lowered by avoiding obvious fluoride sources

and by signing a petition asking for a moratorium on water

fluoridation posted here:

_http://petition.powalliance.org/index.html_

(http://petition.powalliance.org/index.html)

Eleven Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Unions have taken the

unprecedented action to jointly appeal to Congress members for an

immediate national moratorium on water fluoridation and a full

Congressional hearing. They also jointly urged " EPA management to

recognize fluoride as posing a serious risk of causing cancer in

people. "

 

(Access EPA Unions’ press release at:

_http://nteu280.org/Issues/Fluoride/Press%20Release.%20Fluoride.htm_

(http://nteu280.org/Issues/Fluoride/Press%20Release.%

20Fluoride.htm)

)

 

END

For more information, contact:

 

Paul S. Beeber, President & General Counsel

New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc.

PO Box 263,

Old Bethpage, NY 11804

_nyscof_ (nyscof)

_http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof_

(http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof)

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for

Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Office of

Communication, “New

Report Finds Improvements in Oral Health of Americans,†8/25/05

_http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r050825.htm_

(http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r050825.htm)

B) " Dental Health Getting Worse for Some, Report Says. " By

Nicholas

Bakalar, The New York Times , September 13, 2005

_http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/091305HA.shtml_

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m)

 

For more information

_http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof_

(http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof)

_http://www.FluorideAction.Net_ (http://www.fluorideaction.net/)