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  • Fluoridation & Tea Do Not Mix, Studies Continue to Show

    New York – September 25 – Fluoridation puts tea drinkers at risk of damaged bones, discolored teeth and soft tissue harm, studies show. Tea has naturally high fluoride levels. Excess fluoride can weaken bones and discolor children’s un-erupted teeth. When fluoridated water is used to make tea, fluoride levels consumed can be health damaging. Four […]

  • Blue-Ribbon Scientific Panel Exposes Fluoride’s Serious Health Risks

    New York – September 2006 — Fluoride jeopardizes health – even at low levels deliberately added to public water supplies, according to data presented in a recent National Academy of Sciences’ (NAS) National Research Council (NRC) report. Fluoride poses risks to the thyroid gland, diabetics, kidney patients, high water drinkers and others and can severely […]

  • Fluoridation Based on Belief, Not Science, Says Dentist Textbook

    NEW YORK, Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ — Fluoridation is based more on unproven theories than scientific evidence, according to a revised dental textbook by leaders in the field. Dentists have convinced the public, the media, and legislators that 1 part per million (ppm) fluoride (an essential nutrient — they claimed), added to water supplies is “optimal” […]

  • BBC: Experts quizzed over fluoride

    [The following is FAN’s transcript of the BBC interview] Is adding fluoride to the water safe and does it improve dental health? Two important questions but the answers very much depend on who you listen to. A major study by York University of 4000 scientific papers concluded that there is very little high quality evidence […]

  • Sheffield: Fluoride is added to children’s milk in 42 primary schools

    A NEW strategy with the focus of preventing dental problems among children is be introduced in Sheffield. Dentists in the city, who are currently paid according to how much treatment they carry out, will be asked to sign a new contract that will encourage them to carry out more preventive work. The changes are part […]

  • Fluoridation Chemicals

    The fluoride chemicals used to fluoridate drinking water are: fluorosilicic acid, sodium fluorosilicate, and sodium fluoride. Unlike the fluoride compounds found in toothpaste or supplements, fluoridation chemicals are not pharmaceutical grade quality. They are, instead, unpurified industrial by-products that are collected in the air pollution control systems of certain industries. Due to the lack of […]

  • Fluoride back on Tooele ballot

    TOOELE — When residents here vote next week, they will be asked whether they want fluoride added to their drinking water, six years after voters defeated that same idea by a nearly two-to-one margin. Tooele dentist Dr. Clair Vernon and Tooele County Health Department director Myron Bateman asked the City Council last month to consider […]

  • City of Austin water quality questioned by visiting environmental scientist

    Note: See excerpt of “citizens 3 minute communication” to the Austin City Council Dr. Paul Connett, a professor of environmental chemistry at St. Lawrence University in New York and director of the Fluoride Action Network—America’s largest organization opposing water fluoridation—kicked off his six-day Austin tour at the Nov. 4 Austin City Council meeting where he […]

  • Ingested Fluoride Needless

    Swallowed fluoride is not essential to prevent cavities and has no nutritional need, according to prominent dental researchers who found that many American children ingest too much fluoride that can decay teeth and damage bones. “Current evidence strongly suggests that fluorides work primarily by topical means through direct action on the teeth and dental plaque. […]

  • NYT Letters: Fluoridation Pro and Con

    To the Editor: Re “Dental Exam Went Well? Thank Fluoride” (Personal Health, Jan. 24): When the three of us (retired professors in chemistry, physics and biology) wrote a book on the fluoridation controversy, we hoped it would raise the level of the debate. In “The Case Against Fluoride,” our arguments were supported with numerous scientific […]