"Bill Seurer" wrote in message
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Gary Slusser wrote:
Donchya know I can't find the site now.... but a quick
www.google.com web search for "flouride + poison" and then click on
using the correct spelling and both will produce from 3600 to 27000
hits. That's a lot of reading!

Especially since 99.44% of them are bogus.


The people in my area that are against fluoride are all fringe,
fundamentalist type or white militia types like Timothy McVey who have a
paranoid distrust of government. There is no doubt that an excess of
fluoride can have some harmful effects such as turning your teeth brown if
you ingest the fluoride during the time of tooth development. Fluoride is a
natural element found in some water supplies. The initial studies where
sparked when public health officials noticed that people in a specific area
in the planes states (N. Dakota, I believe) had unusual brown stains on
their teeth. It was also noted that the same people also have a very low
incidence of tooth decay. Subsequently there have been many epidemiological
studies of that population to see if there was any correlation to diseases
such as cancer. There were none. There have also been studies looking at
the relationship between diseases in communities with artificially
fluoridated water and communities that do not have fluoride in their water.
I can tell you as a person who spent most of their career in the public
heath sector that people in rural communities or who are on wells suffer the
ravages of tooth decay that you would never see in an equally poor
inner-city neighborhood with a fluoridated water supply. I have worked with
both populations. The AMA and ADA set standards a few years ago for
fluoride supplements for children on non-fluoridated water supplies. I
believe that before spreading false information about fluoride one should
spend a few days in a rural public health dental clinic and see the
suffering that results from the lack of fluoride combined with poor dental
hygiene. It is truly sad to see 4 year old children with all their teeth
rotted off to the gun line and 20 something adults who need dentures.