Thankyou for that oasis of balance Jim. I don't see any reference to the benefits of fluoride on dental caries which you may be aware of. Perhaps it was an oversight.

Worldwide, most children and an estimated ninety percent of adults have experienced caries. It is the primary pathological cause of tooth loss in children. Between 29% and 59% of adults over the age of fifty experience caries. The number of cases has decreased in some developed countries, and this decline is usually attributed to increasingly better oral hygiene practices and preventive measures such as fluoride treatment.

Fluoride helps prevent decay of a tooth by binding to the hydroxyapatite crystals in enamel.

Actually, fluoride is BELIEVED to have reduced tooth decay; but has never been PROVEN to do such. At the same time water was fluoridated, foods were vitamin D fortified ( Vit D prevents rickets - a symptom of which is tooth decay), dental care became more affordable, healthy eating habits were encouraged. The average of death in 1958 was 68 now it is in the high 70's for many health-saving reasons.

Now that diets are decaying, so are teeth. This despite 60+ years of water fluoridation, 50+ years of fluoridated toothpaste and 40+ years of fluoride dental treatments. This after fluoridated water has seeped into our food and beverage supply because fluoridated water is used to make it and fluoride-containing pesticide residues remain on some foods.

This caused the USDA to create a fluoride in foods database so people don't overdose on fluoride - too bad they don't actually advertise it to the taxpayers who paid for it.

Fluoridation began with the mistaken BELIEF that ingested fluoride incorporated into developing enamel to resist tooth decay and only in children up to age 9. Modern science proves that theory wrong. Ingested fluoride doesn't reduce tooth decay at all. Yes, fluoride does get into the enamel - but only from topical application.

Tooth decay crisis is occuring in almost all fluoridated towns, cities, states and countries see: http://www.FluorideNews.Blogspot.com

keep suckling the sweet milk poison out of the governments snake tit.

Journal American Dental association and Journal of American Medical association both published articles showing fluorides at 1ppm caused disease by damaging enzymes causing cell death and malfunction in systems that use enzymes. (most body functions) Also most functions are triggered and halted with enzymes. AWWA even said that water at 0.1ppm could cause dental fluorisis enamel damage in children just like the Father of fluoridation H.T. Dean 21 city study did documenting dental fluorisis did exist at 0.1ppm but of course increased linear with dose with about 10% at 1ppm in theory.
This all changed in 1950 after the health department upon half completed study data claimed total success with ZERO negative effects. Remember this was before the adult teeth of kids born into the experment even had erupted. Fluorides are well documented to delay eruption of adult teeth and distort the cavity data as teeth not there are reported as no cavity. The rate of cavities did not change just a 12 month shift in the appearance delayed until the tooth pops out. The 1986-7 shows this when you look but was not reported. The cavity graph just shifts but has the same total for both fluoridated and unfluoridated. FAN has this 10 page analysis of data. The government refused to give the researchers to computer data but only gave then boxes of printouts with millions of data points so a few minute investigation took 3 months and many hundreds of man hours to complete the analysis. Transparency is the opposite of what government wants. It would prove then dishonest. So after 1950 all three of these organizations accepted fluoridation despite knowledge of its harm they had documented already. Money flowed but only one result was acceptable to get more grant money. Any study can be designed to prove something if you have control over the groups selected and data collection and avoid stasitical analysis.
In 1958 40 doctors took out a huge ad against fluoridation in ST Pete Fl and were threatened by AMA at losing license to practice medicine. They shut up and that is the lesson dentists have learned to shut up and follow the policy by endorsing fluoridation no matter how worthless.

It is not easy to think outside the box for most. Soda with its acidity and Phosphoric acid is good at eroding enamel but the new sports drinks were reported in General Dentistry recently to be 3 to 11 times more damaging then cola. Very evil as they had a blend of organic acids to increase the shelf life mostly.
Also it is proven better for your body to be Base or high Ph for many reasons as some data has show cancer likes a acid environment to thrive
Also one of the main sources of phosphoric acid is a major by product of the phosphate fertilizer industry where the smokestack pollution collectors collect the about 3.5% fluorides that escape out the smoke stack. Sulfuric acid is poured into huge concrete vats with the mineral rock and phosphoric acid is a byproduct.
Unmentioned by industry is that about 200ppm uranium is also found in the ore and Florida had 7 recovery units to extract by solvents the uranium which is mostly in the phosphoric acid. This is AEC government Data by the way off the AEC official mine data site. They produced up to 75% of US yellow cake uranium needs until the last plant closed 1998 in Lake Wales Fl as they could buy it cheaper in Nigeria. So where does the uranium and all the breakdown products go now? Anywhere they want is not far from the truth as the state does not regulate it as it is deemed natural radiation. So the phosphoric acid sold that used to contain thousands of tons of uranium still does, Just unmentioned. We have huge radioactive gypsum waste pipes 8 times to radioactive to be used for drywall or soil sweetner.
The US is now importing toxic waste from China for fluoridation reported Kip Dushan of the CDC in 2007 about half of the Na2SiF6 which is the dry form. Also some h2SiF6 which the Water company in Gainesvill Fl just admitted has never had a single study for safety or benefit showing benefit or safety. The dentists and health department do not care as they have 60 year old theory to back up the safety claims. The UK York Review in 2000 discovered in 3200 studies reviewed not a single one was Class A bias unlikey. Who needs science when you have faith enough to force others to follow your beliefs. Not all sheep choose to go quietly. Most need a Judis to lead them to slaughter quietly. You figure out who that is.

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