New Video: Humorous Moment From FAN Conference
The 6th Citizens Conference on Fluoride, held September 16-18, was a great success with many informative presentations and constant interaction amongst campaigners from around the world, followed by our strongest Congressional lobby-day to date.
Over the coming weeks, Fluoride Action Network (FAN) will publish a brief summary of the conference presentations in a bulletin, and will be releasing a series of high-quality videos of most presentations. Please stay tuned!
In the meantime, we invite you watch our first video from the conference. FAN Senior Advisor and co-author of “The Case Against Fluoride,” Paul Connett, PhD took a few minutes during his presentation to expose pro-fluoridation quackery and propaganda. Click the image below:
Please share the video and our webpage above. You can do so easily by sharing FAN’s Facebook or Twitter posts with the topic. Please also share the video anytime you see fluoride promotors commenting on social media or on news articles.
Fluoride Warnings Issued by International Group of Dentists
October is Dental Hygiene Month, but not all dentists will be touting the alleged benefits of fluoride. In fact, the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT, www.iaomt.org) is using this month to raise awareness of the health risks associated with fluoride and to publicly release their new fluoride position paper and fluoride webpages. The IAOMT has been a trusted ally of the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) for many years, and the two organizations recently worked together as part of a coalition to petition the EPA to end fluoridation.
The IAOMT is an organization of over 800 dentists, physicians, and research professionals in more than 14 countries, and the non-profit organization has been dedicated to its mission of protecting public health since it was founded in 1984. Since that time, the group has continually collected, examined, and reviewed studies and research articles about fluoride and other dental materials and practices.
“IAOMT and its members have been independently studying the toxicity of fluoride for decades,” Matthew Young, DDS, President of the IAOMT, explains. “For dentistry, as an ethical profession, it is imperative to uphold the concepts of ‘do no harm.’ Fluoride has traditionally been seen as a panacea for dental disease without the knowledge of its inherent harm to the human body. We need to seek less toxic alternatives and work to improve human health with the safest approach.”
This week, the IAOMT is officially releasing a variety of new fluoride awareness resources available for free on their website. The materials were developed based on the group’s new Position Paper against Fluoride Use in Water, Dental Materials, and Other Products. Hundreds of scientific studies and research articles were analyzed to create this detailed document, which includes over 500 citations supporting the potential for fluoride to cause adverse health outcomes.
The IAOMT’s official position is that given the elevated number of fluoride sources and the increased rates of fluoride intake in the American population, which have risen substantially since water fluoridation began in the 1940’s, it has become a necessity to reduce and work toward eliminating avoidable sources of fluoride exposure, including water fluoridation, fluoride-containing dental materials, and other fluoridated products.
“Ingesting synthetic fluoride, such as that added to community water, is not only ineffective at reducing tooth decay, but it also exposes our population to a number of toxins,” David Kennedy, DDS, lead author of the IAOMT Fluoride Position Paper, cautions. “American children are already being overdosed with fluoride, as is evidenced by the increase in tooth mottling (fluorosis), which now occurs to some degree in a majority of our youth. The National Research Council determined that many individuals are exceptionally vulnerable to the toxic effects of fluoride. When will people realize that scientific research offers grave warnings about fluoride? Don’t we all deserve safe water?”
Visit the IAOMT’s new fluoride pages at https://iaomt.org/for-patients/fluoride-facts/, and be sure to follow the IAOMT on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn!
Sincerely,
Stuart Cooper
Campaign Director
Fluoride Action Network
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