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Fluoride: Give People A Right To Choose
The issue may have been around for years, but the strength of feeling on both sides of the argument shows no sign of waning. The mere mention of fluoridation leads to a huge outpouring of public reaction, with both sides firmly entrenched. While the anti-fluoride campaigners see the plans as an entirely unacceptable infringement of […]
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Tell Scots the truth about fluoride, say Greens
Green MSP Robin Harper has made a second plea to the Scottish Executive to come clean on its fluoride policy on the day that Westminster rubber-stamps legislation that could mean most of the UK’s water authorities are forced to put the chemical in their supplies. People in Scotland do not know whether they will be […]
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Scottish MP Predicts Backlash
THE Scots MP at the forefront of the campaign to stop the fluoridation of water predicts the Government will be given the all-clear today. Cunninghame South MP Brian Donohoe believes plans to fluoridate water supplies throughout the UK to fight child tooth decay will be carried at today’s second reading in the Commons – but […]
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BBC. Fluoridation: Head to head
MPs are debating whether health authorities and local communities should be able to sanction the addition of fluoride to the water supply. Here two experts on either side of the argument explain the issues to be debated to BBC News Online. Professor Liz Kay is scientific advisor to the British Dental Association. “All the scientific […]
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Right to be angry about poison in the water
People are right to be angry about plans to fluoridate water supplies (News, last week). Under the European Convention on Human Rights and Medicine, a patient must give consent to medication, and be free to withdraw consent at any time. Fluoridation destroys that right. Evidence around the world suggests fluoridation does not reduce tooth decay, […]
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Fluoride has ‘no effect’ on tooth disease
A NEW study has found that children from homes with fluoridated water have similar levels of dental erosion to those with no fluoride. It showed that five-year-olds living in fluoridated areas of Cork had the same degree of erosion of their teeth as those from non-fluoridated communities. Researchers at the Oral Health Services Research Centre […]
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A choice is essential over fluoride
THE timing of the release of a new study by the British Dental Association showing East Lancashire at the top of a ‘list of shame’ in child tooth decay is of course no accident. It is meant to add strength to the case for the fluoridation of water supplies ahead of Monday’s crucial debate by […]
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Drinking problems
Fluoridation, despite being hailed by the dental and medical professions as the “magic bullet”‚ in its arsenal in the fight against tooth decay, continues to be one of the most controversial medical issues of the past 50 years. Since the first UK fluoridation schemes were introduced in the 1960s, the documented dental benefits have been […]
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PR rot continues in UK
Almost predictably the British Dental Association released its PR salvo today – leaving little time for response, before the crucial vote in the House of Commons on Monday (September 8). The BDA distributed what they characterized as a “league of shame” of tooth decay in unfluoridated communities, which they claim sharply differs from tooth decay […]
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Fluoridation Controversy Heats Up in England
A Leading West scientist is heading a nationwide campaign to block Government plans to add potentially harmful chemicals to the country’s water supplies, it was revealed last night. Chemist Dr Jenny Duckworth says the health of the nation could be put at risk if companies are allowed to press ahead with plans to add fluoride […]
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