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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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Keeping your children from the dentist
Young people’s teeth are not as healthy as they used to be. So how can youhelp your children to keep them free of cavities? Louise Holden reports How healthy are your children’s teeth? If they’re typical of young people’s around the country they may have seen better days. Since fluoridation of water became standard in […]
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Dentists criticise fluoridation findings
A group of Irish dentists who oppose fluoridation have called for an investigation into why a report from the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI), which contained concerns about allowing infants to drink fluoridated tap water, was ‘buried’. Speaking to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health, Dr Don MacAuley, chairman of Irish Dentists Opposing Fluoridation […]
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Forum’s recommendations on fluoridation not implemented
The Forum on Fluoridation has expressed disappointment at the Government’s failure to implement its recommendations. Almost a year ago, the forum issued its report recommending that the level of fluoride in water be reduced from between 0.8-1.0 ppm to between 0.6-0.8 ppm. Yesterday, the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children asked why the recommendations […]
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Fluoridation report clarification sought
A group of dentists will today call on an Oireachtas committee to investigate why a recommendation made to the Forum on Fluoridation was changed before the forum published its report last year. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) recommended that infant formula should not be made up with fluoridated tap water because babies under […]
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Alternative to fluoride`96% more effective’
A new product, Cavistat, is 96 per cent more effective than fluoride in preventing tooth decay, according to new research presented yesterday at the International Association of Dental Research conference in Sweden. The Irish government has always claimed that fluoride plays a vital role in the oral health of the Irish population, especially children, despite […]
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Health Minister’s defence of fluoridation ‘an embarrassment”
Health Minister Micheal Martin’s recent Dail defence of continued fluoridation has been compared to the worst type of Soviet science and the minister himself ‘an embarrassment to the Irish medical profession’. So says US Chemistry Professor, Dr Paul Connett, who has testified to several international investigations into the controversial mass practice including to the Irish […]
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Irish EPA criticised over water schemes
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been criticised for accepting the quality of drinking water in Kilkenny as satisfactory even though it was found to contain aluminium contaminations more than 100 times the EU limit. A report for the European Parliament’s Petitions Committee, which sent two of its members on a fact-finding mission to Ireland […]
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Scientists slam call to continue adding fluoride to water
ELEVEN international scientists have come together to slate the Government-appointed Fluoridation Forum‚s recommendation that fluoride continue to be added to public water supplies. They claim the recommendation is based on a narrow selection of studies and fails to take account of what they say is a growing body of evidence pointing to excess fluoride as […]
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VOICE Releases Scientific Critique of Irish Fluoridation Forum
Today, VOICE launched a Scientific Critique challenging the Fluoridation Forum Report‚ that was released on September 10th 2002 by the Health Minister. The Critique has been signed by 11 eminent scientists from Canada, India, Japan, New Zealand, the UK and the USA, all of whom have been researching fluoridation of drinking water for many years. […]
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