FREE ESSAY ON DANGERS OF FLUORIDATION

DANGERS OF FLUORIDATION

How would you feel if someone came along, and made you take medicine without your
knowledge or consent? Saying that this would be beneficial without a notification as to
what this was, or any background information on it. How would you feel if politicians in
your city have benn adding a corrosive poison into your drinking water? They do this
because they believe it will benefit your health in the future? Well believeit or not,
this has been happenin in many cities around the country for a long time now. Many people
are not aware of the term fluoridation. In the Webster's World Dictionary, Second
Edition, one can find the definition of fluoridation as the act of adding fluorides to a
water supply to reduce the incidence of tooth decay. Many cities have been adding
fluorides to their communities' drinking water. There have been well documented
scientifically verified negative side-effects from exposure to fluoride.
There is little evidence that fluoridation causes much damage to our bodies. Several
studies have found that fluoride inhibits broken bone healing, and contributes to damage
from osteoporosis and abnormal collagen formation. Increased hip fractures and
osteosclerosis are scientifically associated with water fluoridation. The latest research
from France on the hip frature issue that, The risk of hip frature was significantly
higher when fluorine concentration was higher than 0.11 mg/L. Girls 15-16 years of age
had premature aging of the bones as well as the hardening of the inter osseous membranes,
and irregular bone formation. Studies hve confimred a dramatic increase in bone cancer in
young males exposed to fluoride during growth of the bones, and a 5% increase in all
types of cancers in fluoridated communities. FDA scientists have reported that fluoride
inthe drinking water adversely affects fertility rates in women ages 10-49, and
increasing fluoride levels. According to two specialists from the National Instituteof
Dental Research, fluoride treatments often cause nausea and vomiting in children, and may
cause renal dysfunction. Fluoride is highly toxic, quite aside from any possible tendency
to cause or promote cancer. A few grams can kill you.
Fluoride has been proven ineffective in reducing tooth decay. A graph by the Health
Department from 1930-1990 has shown that there was a decline in cavities prior to
fluoridation. Even after fluoridation, the rate of decline was approximately the same. If
fluoride was effective, there should havebeen a very noticeable drop in the cavity rate.
So there was a 35 year decline of children's cavities without fluoride. THe effects of
less acute fluorinepoisoning range from discoloration and pitting of the teeth, which is
pretty ironic considering the goal of fluoridation is to promote healthy teeth. The
largest US study on fluoridation and tooth decay, US Public Health Service dental records
or over 39,000 schoolchildren showed that the decay rate of permanent teeth was virtually
the same in fluoridated and nonfluoridated areas. The same results have shown up in other
countries such as Canada and New Zealand. With tooth decay rate droppin, the simple fact
that tooth decay dropped aftert he addition of fluoride cannot be attributed to that
single factor.
There are so many proofs that water fluoridation is a health hazard. Should people have
to put up with even a slight risk to their drinking water when the benefits of
fluoridation are available from voluntary measures, such as toothpaste, mouthwashes and
pills? Does the benefit of fluoride, a decreased rate in cavities, excuse tampering with
community water supplies? Fluoridation seems like a fraud. We've heard so many facts that
fluoride causes more risks to our health than help it. It is impossible to consistently
supply any medication through the drinking water. People are very unique in their
sensitivity to drugs, adn resent being medicated without their consent. Medical doctors
are required by law to share both the good and the bad side of a particular treatment,
and then let us make an informed decision. The decision to fluoridate should be no
different.
Bibliography
1. Fluoridation: A 50 Year Old Blunder And Cover-Up Preventive Dental Health Association
(1999): 15 pag. Online. Internet. 
Available: http://www.emporium.turnpike.net
2. California's #1 and #4 cities targeted for fluoridation say NO! Mtn. View California
Citizens for Safe Drinking Water (1999): 6 pag. Online. Internet
Available: http://www.nofluoride.com