Warning: Before you crawl down the fluoride rabbit hole, please be aware that there are volumes and volumes of data that both support and refute the concept of fluoridating public water supplies for the intent of improving public dental health. Most recent studies are pointing to the conclusion that fluoridation has little or no effect upon public dental health. Factors like income, personal dental hygiene and diet seem to play a much larger role in having healthy teeth. Once you're in that rabbit hole, decide for yourself. Good luck and happy research! The items below will surely pique the curiosity of open-minded individuals.
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The U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services’ book: Toxicological Profile for fluorides, Hydrogen Fluoride, and Fluorine (F) 1993, page 112, notes that: “subsets of the population unusually susceptible to the toxic effects of fluoride and its compounds are the elderly, people with deficiencies of calcium, magnesium, and/or vitamin C, and people with cardiovascular and kidney problems.”
Page 125 notes; “Neurotoxicity. Because fluoride interacts with calcium ions needed for effective neurotransmission, fluoride can affect the nervous system. Further neurological testing may be warranted to ascertain the conditions involved and the extent to which the nervous system is a target organ for fluoride toxicity.”
Dr. Charles Gordon Heyd, Past President of the American Medical Associations says: "I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effects on a long-range basis. Any attempt to use water this way is deplorable."
Dr. James Patrick, a former antibiotics research scientist at the National Institutes of Health, describes the predicament: "[There is] a very low margin of safety involved in fluoridating water. A concentration of about 1 ppm is recommended. ...in several countries, severe fluorosis has been documented from water supplies containing only 2 or 3 ppm. In the development of drugs... we generally insist on a therapeutic index (margin of safety) of the order of 100; a therapeutic index of 2 or 3 is totally unacceptable, yet that is what has been proposed for public water supplies."
Fluoridation is compulsory mass medication, a procedure that violates the principles of medical ethics. Dosages can not be controlled or even monitored when medicine is placed in the public water system.
"An analysis of national survey data collected by the National Institute of Dental Research (NIDR) concludes that children who live in areas of the U.S. where the water supplies are fluoridated have tooth decay rates nearly identical with those who live in nonfluoridated areas." - Hileman, B. (1989). New Studies Cast Doubt on Fluoridation Benefits. Chemical & Engineering News.
September 5, 2000: In a twenty-two page response to the United States House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment, Chairman, Charles Fox, Assistant Administrator USEPA, admitted that after more than five decades of fluoridation at least tens of millions of Americans could could be adversely affected by fluoridated drinking water. Fox wrote:
"EPA is in the process of developing medical fact sheets to provide medical practitioners (doctors, nurses, dietitians, etc.) with health data relative to drinking water contaminants that can be then used in counseling patients. This work has just begun, and will initially focus on the elderly, children and pregnant women. It will later be expanded to cover other at-risk populations. In addition, EPA has made it a requirement for public water systems to provide their clients with health effects information on contaminants in their water supply, including fluoride [Consumer Confidence Rule FR 63(160): 44512-44536]."*
Charles Fox acknowledges the Toxicological Profile for Fluorides (US Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 1993) page 112 statement: "POPULATIONS THAT ARE UNUSUALLY SUSCEPTIBLE. Existing data indicate that subsets of the population may be unusually susceptible to the effects of fluoride and its compounds. These populations include the elderly, people with deficiencies of calcium, magnesium and vitamin C, and people with cardiovascular and kidney problems . . . Poor nutrition increases the incidence and severity of dental fluorosis and skeletal fluorosis."
The following statistics are of the 'at risk' populations compiled for the House Committee on Science inquiry by the USEPA:
55 years and older population--52,000,000
Cardiovascular disease--22,000,000
Kidney (renal) disorders--2,000,000
Vitamin C deficiency--27% of the population
Magnesium deficiency--37% of the population
Calcium deficiency--44% of the population
In the response to congressman Ken Calvert, the EPA also concedes that fluorosilicic acid and fluorosilicates, the preferred chemicals used to fluoridate drinking water are captured pollution waste products from phosphate fertilizer industry. No safety testing has ever been done with the products.
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