Is Fluoride Harmful?

 After 72 years of fluoridation, reaching 2/3 of Americans, promising to substantially reduce tooth decay, especially in poor children, the American Journal of Public Health(2017)  reports “Despite significant financial, training, and program investments, US children’s caries experience and inequities continued to increase over the last 20 years,” reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc.  (NYSCOF)

Children are fluoride-overdosed while oral-health-disparities between poor and non-poor increase. “America’s shockingly poor dental care system,” is profiled in the Yakima  Herald.

The silent oral-health epidemic, declared in 2000 by US Surgeon General David Satcher, persists today, he  says.

Fluoridation, an outdated 1945 concept, predicted only 10% would suffer mild dental fluorosis (white-flecked teeth). However, 58% of adolescents are now afflicted – some with more severe fluorosis (stained, pitted teeth) without benefit of less tooth  decay.

For example, the Journal of the American Dental Association (Dye 2017) reports, 65% of poor 6-8 year-olds and 12-15 year-olds have cavities in their primary and permanent teeth,  respectively.

Dye reports: “The prevalence of pediatric caries in the United States has remained consistent for the past 3  decades.”

“… there has been little improvement in preventing caries initiation,” said  Dye.

Is organized dentistry, leading fluoridation promoters, to  blame?

Reason Magazine reports “The over-the-top intimidation tactics of the ADA [American Dental Association] and its shiny-toothed shock troops,” contributed to high healthcare costs. A lawmaker is quoted as saying “I put their power right up there with the  NRA.”

The Washington Post (“The unexpected political power of dentists”) quoted a Harvard dentist comparing the ADA to  ISIS.

Free once-a-year “pop-up” dental clinics “fail to relieve the suffering of marginalized people but also can produce it,” according to a dissertation by  Raskin.

Raskin explains extractions are routine and “incentivized” instead of preventive or restorative care. Dentist volunteerism declined; patients are turned  away.

Oral health issues costs $6 billion in lost productivity yearly. Emergency department oral pain visits cost $2 billion yearly and contribute to the opioid-addiction  epidemic.

NYSCOF President, attorney Paul Beeber says, “This is a clear indication that fluoridation has failed miserably, wasted tax-dollars and fluoride-overdosed our children. Organized dentistry has priced low-income Americans out of dental  care.”

SOURCE New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation,  Inc.