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State to be sued over tooth damage caused by tap water
The parents of a child whose teeth were llegedly damaged by fluoride in tap water are repor edly set to seek compensation from the State in the Hi Reports this morning said a group of dentists opposed to the fluoridation of water was claiming that levels of fluoride damage in the Republic were three times […]
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Tap water fluoride ‘claims timebomb’
A COMPENSATION action is to be taken in the High Court against the State by parents who claim their child’s teeth were damaged by fluoride in their tap water. A group representing over 100 dentists opposed to fluoridation yesterday branded the continued State-sponsored mandatory fluoridation of drinking water “a ticking compensation timebomb”. A review of […]
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Watering down real concerns over fluoride
RECENTLY a group of over 100 dentists met to discuss the near epidemic levels of dental fluorosis in Irish children. These professionals, members of Irish Dentists Opposing Fluoridation (IDOF) (www.idof.net) also reviewed the North/South Oral Health study carried out by the Department of Health, which showed a near seven-fold increase in fluoride damage to teeth […]
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Dentists Slam Harney Over Fluoride Poisoning
Irish Dentists Opposing Fluoridation (IDOF), a group of over 100 dentists, has published an article in The Irish Dentist slamming Minister Harney and the Department of Health for doing nothing to combat the near epidemic levels of dental fluorosis in Irish children. [1] Here, dental fluorosis, fluoride damage to teeth, has sky-rocketed with a seven […]
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Majority of fluoridation plants operating illegally
“Of the six hundred water supplies in Ireland that are dosed with fluoride, under half have legal sanction” said VOICE campaigner Robert Pocock. According to successive EPA reports since 1997 (1), over a hundred public water supplies are illegal under the Health (Fluoridation of Water Supplies) Act 1960 and a further two hundred group supplies […]
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It’s all a matter of autonomy
We have to give some credit to dental surgeon Dr Joe Mullen. In an article in this paper (IMN, 5/1/05), he at least addresses the question of personal autonomy when it comes to enforced dosing of the population of Ireland with an unlicensed medication via their drinking water supply. This to me at any rate […]
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Dangers of Fluoride
Sir – The recent report on the quality of drinking water in Ireland, released by the Environmental Protection Agency, warned that “national compliance for fluoride should be higher”. The report found that malfunctioning equipment in Roscommon caused exceedances of this chemical in the water supply. Other exceedances were noted in Cork city, west Cork and […]
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Where have all the experts gone?
Way back in September 2002, the then Health Minister Micheál Martin promised the people that there would be an expert body established to oversee the recommendations of the Forum on Fluoridation. This group was to be called the Irish Expert Body on Fluoridation and Health. For the purposes of brevity I will refer to this […]
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VOICE supports demand for re-think on causes of fluoride poisoning in children
Water fluoridation has received another damaging blow this week, with the release of new research from the Oral Health Research Centre in UCC revealing that children in fluoridated areas are twice as likely to suffer from dental fluorosis than those children living in unfluoridated areas. “VOICE calls for the immediate cessation of water fluoridation, as […]
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A state of denial on fluoridation of drinking water
Here is a challenge for you. Go into your local supermarket – Superquinn, Tesco, Supervalu, Dunne’s Stores; wherever, it does not matter. Go to the pharmacy and toiletries section and there find the toothpaste section. In the toothpaste section pick out a product that does not contain fluoride. I have just spent 20 minutes in […]
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