DENTISTS AND FLUORIDATION.

Unfortunately, because [some] government
officials have put so much of their
credibility on line trying to defend
fluoridation, it will be very difficult for them
to speak honestly and openly about this
issue in the future, – but we will.

Reverse Gullibility & Scientific Evidence.

$cience seems to have entered a mini dark age!

TIMES ARE CHANGING ~ TOOTHPASTE

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.Errors and Omissions –
2016 NHMRC Fluoridation Paper

We reserve the right to publish
any of our outgoing correspondence
and incoming responses,
or non-responses, on our web sites
as part of our policy of a
❝ A Citizen’s Right-To-Know ❞

See also our post ⇒ ‘Rogues Gallery’

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We do not support the addition of any fluorides to:
food, water, or air, this includes adding it to salt,
milk, baby formula and toothpaste.
We are not happy about its use in medicines,
weapons, insecticides, fungicides,
anaesthetics, and many industrial processes. 

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by:
David C. Kennedy, DDS of San Diego 

Fluoridation and Michael Gannon AMA

Tooth Decay Declines In Brisbane

NOT ALL DENTISTS SUPPORT FLUORIDATION

Dr. Burhenne ⇓

⇒ Ask The Dentist ⇐

‘The Secret War & The Fluoride Conspiracy

by Dr Geoffrey E. Smith – 1997

‘ The Secret War ‘

The ⇑ Complete ⇑ Book
Large file may be slow to load.

Regenerative endodontics is dentistry of the future.

Our website is not intended to diagnose or treat
disease. It is provided for educational
and informational purposes only.
Please consult an inappropriate
professional if you have
any concerns?

~  ‘A Wince of Dentists’ ~

OECD. Stat/Dental Health for Non-F. Countries

Decline of Caries After The Cessation Of
Water Fluoridation In The Former East Germany

Determinants Overlooked In Fluoridation Research

⇑   ⇑   ⇑   ⇑   ⇑

Open Letter to Queensland Government on Fluoridation

 See also ⇓
BABIES & FLUORIDE
http://www.fluoridealert.org/professionals.statement

A dentist who changed his position on fluoridation. ↓ ↓ ↓
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SW00gCpTps&feature=related

This work has been out of print.

Full text now available here ⇓
⇒  FLUORIDATION, 1979  ⇐
Scientific Criticisms and fluoride Dangers
By Philip R.N.Sutton
D.D.Sc. (Melb.), L.D.S., F.R.A.C.D.S.
Formerly Senior Lecturer in Dental Science,
Senior Research Fellow
[ ⇑ This is a very rare book. ⇑ ]

‘Fluoride The Aging Factor’
 Extracts ⇒ HERE

⇓ Delayed Eruption ⇓
ABSTRACTS from 3nd EADPH Congress

More including info for next Congress

Side-effects-of-consuming-fluoride

Fluoride delays tooth eruption, and
can be responsible for malocclusions,

 Dental Public
Some scientists, dentists and professionals have been
 persecuted, censored, or harassed
when they oppose water fluoridation.
‘Second Look’ ⇓⇓
  http://www.slweb.org/ftrc.html  

Dr. Rachel Hall Speaks On Fluoride And Mercury

NOT ALL DENTISTS SUPPORT FLUORIDATION

“WHY MOST PUBLISHED RESEARCH FINDINGS ARE FALSE”
Fluoridation is drink spiking!

RUDOLF ZIEGELBECKER – Graz Austria:

http://www.fluorideresearch.org/421/files/FJ2009_v42_n1_p2.pdf

        ❝  So while fluoridation is neither Safe and Effective, it continues to provide a convenient cover for many of the [vested] interests who stand to profit from the public being misinformed about fluoride. Unfortunately, because [some] government officials have put so much of their credibility on the line defending fluoridation, it will be very difficult for them to speak honestly and openly about this issue in the future…

“Colorado Brown Stain”
It became known by the more scientific term –
‘Dental Fluorosis’

 International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology

❝ The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those
who can’t read or write – but those who cannot
learn, unlearn, and relearn. ❞
ALVIN TOFFLER

( May be Alvin had a bad dentist ! )

Westendorf’s 30-year PhD research

❝ His work is important for reasons beyond its
specific scientific findings.
His work was motivated by the assumption that
ingested fluoride was beneficial.”

–  Odontophobia  –
The Wall Street Journal says:

 Dentists Are Big Political Players
and do all they can to preserve their monopoly.”
— Huge donations secure their political agendas:

They boasted the largest single health-care PAC in 2008, gave nearly $13 million to state and local politicians in 2010, raising the question:
What do dentists want? Alicia Mundy has details on ‘The News Hub’.

  http://live.wsj.com/video/why-dentists-are-big-political-players/4ADDACA4-8F50-43D4-B694-D541A38FBF3A.html#!4ADDACA4-8F50-43D4-B694-D541A38FBF3A

Corporate Lobbyists In The Driving Seat
Dental Crisis in America: – After 68 years of water fluoridation foisted upon Americans by the American Dental Association and its constituents groups, a Dental Crisis exists in America.
Senator Sanders introduced legislation to remedy this situation which is endorsed by 37 groups but not the ADA because it includes funding for Dental Therapists which would infringe upon dentists lucrative monopoly.
The ADA prefers fluoridation because it doesn’t stop tooth decay and doesn’t hurt their bottom line.  In fact, dentists are making lots of money covering up fluoride-stained teeth with expensive veneers because American children are now over-fluoridated with up to 60% affected with dental fluorosis – white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth. Veneers cost about $1,000 a tooth.  

A short youtube
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oaINr51MrM 

For some Americans, dental care means a sturdy chair, a fluoride swish, and a free toothbrush. But for one in three Americans, it’s a nightmare, including astronomical bills, crippling credit card debt, panicked visits to an emergency room, and life-threatening disease. 
These hardships are chronicled in a new ‘Frontline’ documentary, ‘Dollars and Dentists’, which airs tonight on PBS stations. ‘Frontline’ correspondent Miles O’Brien takes us behind the scenes of the documentary that explores America’s broken dental system.  Frontline is produced by our partner WGBH. You can find when
“Dollars and Dentists” is airing on your local PBS station here.  

Dentists Doing Very Well, Thank You, – Despite Fluoridation…

Fluoridation hasn’t hurt dentistry’s bottom line at all. In fact, dentistry is big business today despite 7 decades of water fluoridation and a glut of fluoridated dental products. Americans spent about $108 billion on dentists in 2011, an inflation-adjusted increase from $64 billion in 1996, according to the General Accounting Office. But a dental crisis still exists. 

Since fluoridation doesn’t reduce tooth decay, whose best interests are served by protecting fluoride’s image?
The Global Toothpaste Market is expected to reach $12.6 billion by 2015,
according Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

Flagitious Lallation

Dr Jackie Robinson,
Associate Director, Continuing Education in Dentistry,
University of Sydney.

Some recomended reading from us ⇓

 See also – Toothpaste.  – UK info

FLUORIDE papers by Margaret Cammack Smith

→ Fluoridation on trial – 21 May 2018 
Largely unseen, a lawsuit that aims to outlaw public water 
fluoridation is moving forward in the federal District Court – [California].

New

COMPETENCY CHECK: Airline pilots are required to undertake regular proficiency checks to ensure they continue to be competent and aware of new regulations. It would seem that the dental and medical professions are lax on this – they still promote fluoridation and other dangerous out of date practices…

Full text ⇓ ⇓ ⇓

Fluorine Intoxication by Kaj Roholm (1937) +

Fluoride intoxication: a clinical-hygienic study with a
review of the literature and some
experimental investigations.
London: H.K. Lewis Ltd.

“The teeth may be delayed in eruption and have abnormalities in size, shape and position, and resistance of such teeth is low.” p. 272

“The pathological enamel is brittle and readily chips off.
The incisors wear down abnormally, which sometimes leads to defective occlusion and, as a secondary phenomenon, abnormal growth of opposing teeth. The incisors often exhibit lateral deviations; growth is retarded.” p. 272

The above research is
STILL VALID AFTER 80+ YEARS
Come on ADA* it must be time to catch up!

There are three stages of any truth: in the first it is ridiculed,
in the second, it is resisted, and in the third
it is considered self evident.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~
* And the TGA

EXTRACT FROM AUSTRALIAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION’S
WEB SITE DISCLAIMER:
           ❝ … The ADA Inc. shall not be responsible for information provided herein under any theory of liability or indemnity. Liability of ADA Inc., if any, for damages (including, without limitation, liability arising out of contract, negligence, strict liability, tort or patent or copyright infringement) shall not exceed the fees paid by the user for the particular information or service provided … ❞

See also Australian Dental Association’s
policy on amalgam → HERE ←
( Sounds very mumblecrust
– Fills us with confidence ! )

FLUOROSIS AND THE WAYS TO CONTAIN IT
http://fluoridealert.org/fan-tv/crippling-waters/

LARGE FILE → HERE ←

 ADA / Qld. Labour Party Collusion:
The Queensland Health Department, funded The Australian Dental Association Queensland Branch, $220,000 as a CONtribution to its pro-fluoridation campaign. The request for this funding was directed to the Hon. Stephen Robertson MP. The Minister for Health at the time –
Feb. 2006.   →  $educed by an attractive error   ←

A Bibliography of Scientific Literature on Fluoride

→  www.slweb.org/bibliography.html  ←

→  Paper Of The Month  ←

→  SAFTEY DATA   ←

FLAGITIOUS LALLATION

(A Member of IADR)

    ❝ … Statements regarding the scientific controversy surrounding water fluoridation are generally regarded as artefacts of anti-fluoridationist activity, with actual scientific debate over water fluoridation being resolved decades ago. Almost all major dental and health organisations either support water fluoridation or have found no association between it and adverse health effects [20]. Nonetheless, propagating the idea of an ongoing scientific debate gives the illusion of scientific uncertainty and is a favoured tactic of water fluoridation opponents. In 1978, Consumer Reports published a two-part series on fluoridation that concluded:

The simple truth is that there’s no “scientific controversy” over the safety of fluoridation. The practice is safe, economical, and beneficial. The survival of this fake controversy represents, in Consumers Union’s opinion, one of the major triumphs of quackery over science in our generation.” [21]  And yet, more than a quarter of a century after these words were printed the manufactured ‘controversy‘ shows no signs of  diminishing.

K K Cheng, Professor Of Epidemiology:

The review estimated the prevalence of fluorosis (mottled teeth) and fluorosis of aesthetic concern at around 48% and 12.5% when the fluoride concentration was 1.0 part per million, although the quality of the studies was low. The evidence was of insufficient quality to allow confident statements about other potential harms (such as cancer and bone fracture). The amount and quality of the available data on side effects were insufficient to rule out all but the biggest effects

Well said Mr. Armfield,
however you have not been keeping
up with the recent science from overseas.
We hope our web site will help to keep you updated…

→  Joining_the_Dots_on_Australian_Fluoridation_Fraud  ←

— A R C P O H —
Australian Research Centre For
Population Oral Health
University Of Adelaide:
ARCPOH Response to USHHS
(United States Health Service)
Regarding:

Extract: from letter by
Dr. Jason Armfield

❝… Hence, fluoride exposures of importance to dental fluorosis occur across the early childhood years. Fluoride exposures of importance to dental caries occur across the whole life-course. Developing policy to influence those exposures needs to take account of this fundamental difference. Actions to reduce fluorosis should be targeted at fluoride exposures that affect children in the early childhood years, while maintaining fluoride exposures across life for the prevention of dental caries… ❞

Our Comments:

Well, what you are saying here,- in a round about way,
or are trying to cover up, is that dental fluorosis only
occurs during tooth formation, so reduce fluoride
from all other sources until after teeth have erupted, and no
NO  HARM  WILL  BE  VISIBLE,  but do not lower the dose
in drinking water.
However the evidence is, that damage from
fluoridation continues to the rest of the body after the teeth
are formed, – but will NOT be recorded on the teeth –

We do not think your response to USHHS is ethical
Please see the research papers on this web site, or our links
to them, including animal studies, which support our comments.

   Yours truly,
           Fluoridation Australia

→   Problems with topical applications   ←

Artificial Water Fluoridation – No Benefit – Definite Harm
National data set collected in the U.S. in 1986-1987
(more than 16,000 children, ages 7-17, ↓
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/Clinch_2009_No_Benefit_Definite_Harm.pdf

Over 21 fluorinated tranquillising compounds plus 58 brand-name major tranquillisers using F.

MORE OF OUR CONCERNS:
Caries / Dental Fluorosis

Because dental fluorosis only occurs during tooth formation, fluoride levels in water and exposure to fluoridated toothpaste needs to be low in children, or there will be evidence of harm.

Skeletal fluorosis can be misdiagnosed as arthritis,
Consumption of fluoridated water is difficult to monitor:
Fluid intake is relative to the “ambient air temperature”, work,
sport and exercise regimes. The availability of  ‘clean’
bottled water, and RO filters, which are now commonplace
in many Australian households, and will distort the [your] data.

Because fluoride is medication, the dilemma will always be the dose,
— 1ppm is a rate – not a dose, and is not related to body weight,
or many other variables including nutritional status, kidney
function, weather, climate, latitude, elevation and daily temperature
variations at the fluoridation plant. 

Determinants Often Overlooked In Fluoridation Research

Medication by thirst, is scientifically irresponsible.

The observation of harm with fluoridation is modified by cross contamination,– some foods and drinks will be crossing borders of reticulated water supplies, some being fluoridated and some not, or at different levels (ppm).

No amount of long-winded circumlocution, technical language or
extensive discussions of the “appropriateness of study design “
can disguise the simple and obvious problems of trying to deliver
medication via the public water supply at a defined dose…
it defies logic, is contemptuous of science and it is professionally
irresponsible to pretend otherwise… See item # 3 IADR

Errors and Omissions – 2016 NHMRC Fluoridation PaperThere are only preliminary estimates available regarding how much F. is absorbed through our skin and lungs when we stand naked in our shower or soak in the bath contaminated by fluoridated water – and we also pay for this indignity in our water bill.               

  Cognitive Vulnerability:

A MODEL OF THE ETIOLOGY OF FEAR
By Jason M. Armfield

            “ Fear is a powerful and considerably aversive human emotion.”

 … We agree with the above statement. Your paper is interesting and is widely researched but makes no mention of nutrition?
We feel this is an major oversight. Animal and human behavior, reproduction, health and mental state are dependent on balanced nutrition and freedom from mind-altering chemicals.

Deficiencies of zinc, (especially for men and boys), some of the B vitamins, and vitamin K2 are well established and documented as essentials for a healthy body and a stable personality. Excess sugar, aspartame and alcohol can cause mental disturbances indeed any chemical that can interfere with the pineal gland will have psychological impacts. Bad parenting is a significant factor, but the Hopewood experience provided evidence that even this can be over come with a good diet and environment. Gov.info.

Fluoride in its various forms interferes with many nutrients, enzymes and minerals and the pineal gland, and as such is contraindicated.
This last statement however may be at odds with your training and profession, but science is science and it is often in a lifetime that at least one change of belief is required in the bright dawn of a new revelation. Research papers from the 1930s and recent times, especially recent research from countries NOT influenced by U.S.A, and its commercial interests, confirm and reaffirm that fluoride in any of its forms is a hazard to plants, animals, enzymes, earth’s atmosphere and humans.

Dr. Jason M Armfield:

 ❝  ….  Any action to lower the fluoride levels must be carefully
considered in order not to undermine the protective effect *…. ❞
[* read – Protection of our water fluoridation policy ]

Your internet article listed below hints at desperation,
and is almost a promotion of our cause. Your awareness 
of the dangers of fluoridation and fluoride contamination
suggests that mammon is more influential than true science.
“methinks thou dost protest too much“

‘When public action undermines public health:
a critical examination of anti-fluoridationist literature’.

Fluoridation is NOT controversial. It is medication.

→ An Inconvenient Tooth – Fluoride Documentary ←

A recent scientific report shows that fluoride disturbs the enzymes casein kinase II och alkaline phosfatase, which causes a disordered enamel formation. Thus, what dentists call innocent stains on the teeth is actually a symptom of chronic fluoride poisoning in the infant. Enamel damaged by fluorosis has been shown more susceptible to caries than normal enamel, recently in study of native children in South Africa who never experience any type of dental care.  When considering the biological nature of fluorosis, it is not hard to understand that children during the period of dental development should avoid fluoride as much as possible, i.e. they should not have fluoride tablets, fluoridated chewing gum or drink fluoridated water or consume fluoridated salt.

   Full text  →  HERE

RESOLUTION ON USE OF WATER SUPPLY AS VEHICLE FOR DRUGS

Adopted by the Assembly and Delegates of the 
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc.,
at their Annual Meeting held in San Francisco, California,
Hotel Mark Hopkins, 12 April 1958

❝ There is no right way to do the wrong thing.”  ~  Oren Arnold

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. ~ Socrates

NOBLE PRIZE WINNERS WHO HAVE OPPOSED

Ethics of Artificial Water Fluoridation in Australia

Professor Niyi Awofeso
School of Population Health

The University of Western Australia (M431) 35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009 Australia

Information on Mark Diesendorf

ARE PROPONENTS OF WATER FLUORIDATION
SUPPRESSING SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE AND DEBATE?

~ FLUORIDATION SURVEY AUSTRALIA ~
~ARCPOH RESEARCH~

Credit:

Merilyn Haines, the Director of  FAN-Australia  (Fluoride Action Network Australia) has found some startling statistics buried deep in official research material by ARCPOH (The Australian Research Centre Population Oral Health at the Adelaide Dental School) that could scuttle the water fluoridation program once and for all.

Haines has found in the ARCPOH statistics that the permanent teeth of children in largely unfluoridated (<5% before 2009) Queensland were erupting on average two years earlier than the children in the rest of Australia, which is largely fluoridated (see the figure below). A two-year delay would negate all the small reductions in tooth decay claimed by dental researchers since 1990.

In other words fluoridation doesn’t work. Any difference in tooth decay claimed to be due to fluoride is simply an artefact of the delayed eruption caused by fluoride.

 Source –
Published and unpublished data from 2003- 2004
Australian Child Dental Health Surveys
(Unpublished data obtained by – Freedom of Information Application.)
    →  www.fluorideaustralia.org/articleView.asp?Article=51  ←
             

See also the much quoted ↓

→ THE TOWNSVILLE REPORT  ←

     Why I Changed My Mind About Water Fluoridation Dr John Colquhoun, Dentist

↑  Extracts from “WHY I CHANGED MY MIND ABOUT WATER FLUORIDATION”
    Dr. John Colquhoun © 1997 University of Chicago Press

→ FLUORIDE FIGURES AND FACTS  ←

are

→   FUDGED, FORGED AND FABRICATED !  ←

→  International Society for Fluoride Research Inc.  ←

→  LIST OF PAPERS  ←

DELAYED ERUPTION

Bite Magazine and website:
→  Tiny teeth in tatters  ←
 →  Half of all six year olds have decayed teeth  ←

A new study at the University of Sydney will try to find out what’s going wrong with their teeth. The tiny teeth of Australian toddlers are rotting and dental researchers at the University of  Sydney are poised to start a long-term study to find out why.

Our comment:  It looks like artificial water fluoridation is still not working. 
Fluoride does not work for sheep, see below ↓

See more photos like this from ⇓

→  Queensland Gov. Fluoride Research  ←

Queensland Towns No Longer Fluoridated – July 2018

(He is a critic of ALL anti-fluoridationists)

[ We are glad not to have his support! ]

     This was a major revelation since Barrett had provided supposed expert testimony as a psychiatrist and had testified in numerous court cases. Barrett also had said that he was a legal expert even though he had no formal legal training.

The most damning testimony before the jury, under the intense cross-examination by Negrete, was that Barrett had filed similar defamation lawsuits against almost
40 people across the country within the past few years and –
HAD NOT WON ONE SINGLE ONE AT TRIAL …

During the course of his examination, Barrett also had to concede his ties to the: American Medical Association, (AMA) Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
and the Food [Fraud] & Drug Administration (FDA).

… Barrett is a shill for the medical and pharmaceutical cartels and
his bully tactics and unjustified discrediting of leading innovators,
scientists and health practitioners should not be is not tolerated …

http://www.quackpotwatch.org/quackpots/quackpots/barrett.htm 

See  →  Fluoride  ←  Credit Dr. Mercola

…This apparatus
 has been erected
to lie and obfuscate this issue. It cannot
tolerate a single chink in its armour of deceit.
No compromise, no partial admission is possible without
the integrity of the whole edifice of deception being threatened.

❝ It is difficult to get a man to understand something
when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. ❞
~  Upton Sinclair  

USA To Lower Fluoride Levels:

ATLANTA  7 January  2011 (extracts from reports)
In a remarkable turnabout, federal health officials say many Americans are
getting too much fluoride, and it’s causing splotches on children’s
teeth and perhaps other, more serious problems.

     The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced plans Friday (7 Jan) to lower the recommended level of fluoride in drinking water for the first time in nearly 50 years, based on a fresh review of the science. The announcement is likely to renew the battle over fluoridation, even though the addition of fluoride to drinking water is considered one of the greatest public health successes of the 20th century. One reason behind the change: About 2 out of 5 adolescents have tooth streaking or spottiness because of too much fluoride, a government study found recently. In extreme cases, teeth can be pitted by the mineral — though many cases are so mild only dentists notice it. The problem is generally considered cosmetic and not a reason for serious concern.

      The splotchy tooth condition, fluorosis, is unexpectedly common in youngsters ages 12 through 15 and appears to have  grown more common since the 1980s,  according to the Centers for Disease  Control and Prevention. But there are also growing worries about  more serious dangers from fluoride. The Environmental Protection Agency released two new reviews of research on fluoride Friday. One of the studies found that prolonged, high intake of fluoride can increase the risk of brittle bones, fractures and crippling bone abnormalities. Critics of fluoridated water seized on the proposed change [on] Friday to renew their attacks on it — a battle that dates back to at least the Cold War 1950s, when it was denounced by some as a step toward Communism. Many activists nowadays don’t think fluoride is essential, and they praised the government’s new steps.

Reverse Gullibility & Scientific Evidence.

   Extract from:

FULL TEXT → HERE ← Thanks Dr. Hinshaw

     It was known for years that fluorides inhibit enzymes by binding with essential cofactors such as magnesium, phosphates, etc.  Then, in 1981, our understanding of enzyme inhibition was significantly advanced by Dr. John Emsley at King’s College in London.  He and his co-workers found that fluorides form very strong hydrogen bonds, actually the second strongest hydrogen bond ever found, with groups of atoms called amides.  Now amides form linkages between amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.  These linkages are broken by bonding with fluorides, thereby interfering with protein enzyme reactions.  And not only are enzymatic promoted reactions inhibited, but the distorted proteins may be misidentified or not recognized by the immune system, leading to attempts to destroy the distorted proteins, causing abnormal allergic responses and auto-immune reactions.  These responses to fluoride at levels found in one or two pints [parts?] of fluoridated water are listed in the ‘Physicians’ Desk Reference and the “United States Pharmcopeia”.  Not to be ignored is the fact that DNA strands, think genes, are connected by hydrogen bonds.  Fluoride attacks these bonds, thereby damaging our DNA, thereby creating genetic damage which may lead to birth defects, cancer and allergy.  Notice that while fluoride causes a multiplicity of ill-effects, each of them results from disruptions of enzymes, other proteins and DNA.

 Extract from:
FLUORIDE IN DRINKING WATER
A SCIENTIFIC REVIEW OF EPA’S  STANDARDS

Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology
Division on Earth and Life Studies

      Credit to:

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS
Washington, D.C.

     Available Online →  HERE  ←

ENAMEL FLUOROSIS

     ❝  Fluoride has a great affinity for the developing enamel because tooth apatite crystals have the capacity to bind and integrate fluoride ion into the crystal lattice (Robinson et al. 1996). Excessive intake of fluoride during enamel development can lead to enamel fluorosis, a condition of the dental hard tissues in which the enamel covering of the teeth fails to crystallize properly, leading to defects that range from barely discernable markings to brown stains and surface pitting. This section provides an overview of the clinical and histopathological manifestations of enamel fluorosis, diagnostic issues, indexes used to characterize the condition, and possible mechanisms.

CLINICAL AND HISTOLOGICAL FEATURES

Enamel fluorosis is a mottling of the tooth surface that is attributed to fluoride exposure during tooth formation. The process of enamel maturation consists of an increase in mineralization within the developing tooth and concurrent loss of early-secreted matrix proteins. Exposure to fluoride during maturation causes a dose-related disruption of enamel mineralization resulting in widening gaps in its crystalline structure, excessive retention of enamel proteins, and increased porosity. These effects are thought to be due to fluoride’s effect on the breakdown rates of matrix proteins and on the rate at which the by-products from that degradation are withdrawn from the maturing enamel (Aoba and Fejerskov 2002).

Clinically, mild forms of enamel fluorosis are evidenced by white horizontal striations on the tooth surface or opaque patches, usually located on the incisal edges of anterior teeth or cusp tips of posterior teeth. Opaque areas are visible in tangential reflected light but not in normal light. These lesions appear histopathologically as hypomineralization of the subsurface covered by a well-mineralized outer enamel surface (Thylstrup and Fejerskov 1978). In mild fluorosis, the enamel is usually smooth to the point of an explorer, but not in moderate and severe cases of the condition (Newbrun 1986). In moderate to severe forms of fluorosis, porosity increases and lesions extend toward the inner enamel. After the tooth erupts, its porous areas may flake off, leaving enamel defects where debris and bacteria can be trapped. The opaque areas can become stained yellow to brown, with more severe structural damage possible, primarily in the form of pitting of the tooth surface.

Enamel in the transitional or early maturation stage of development is the most susceptible to fluorosis (Den Besten and Thariani 1992). For most children, the first 6 to 8 years of  life appear to be the critical period of risk. In the Ikeno district of Japan, where a water supply containing fluoride at 7.8 mg/L was inadvertently used for 12 years, no enamel fluorosis was seen in any child who was age 7 years or older at the start of this period or younger than 11 months old at the end of it (Ishii and Suckling 1991). For anterior teeth, which are of the most aesthetic concern, the risk period appears to be the first 3 years of life (Evans and Stamm 1991; Ishii and Suckling 1991; Levy et al. 2002a). Although it is possible for enamel fluorosis to occur when teeth are exposed during enamel maturation alone, it is unclear whether it will occur if fluoride exposure takes place only at the stage of enamel-matrix secretion. Fejerskov et al. (1994) noted that fluoride uptake into mature enamel is possible only as a result of concomitant enamel dissolution, such as caries development. Because the severity of fluorosis is related to the duration, timing, and dose of fluoride intake, cumulative exposure during the entire maturation stage, not merely during critical periods of certain types of tooth development, is probably the most important exposure measure to consider when assessing the risk of fluorosis (Den Besten 1999).

MECHANISMS

Dental enamel is formed by matrix-mediated biomineralization. Crystallites of hydroxyapatite (Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2) form a complex protein matrix that serves as a nucleation site (Newbrun 1986). The matrix consists primarily of amelogenin, proteins synthesized by secretory ameloblasts that have a functional role in establishing and maintaining the spacing between enamel crystallites. Full mineralization of enamel occurs when amelogenin fragments are removed from the extracellular space. The improper mineralization that occurs with enamel fluorosis is thought to be due to inhibition of the matrix proteinases responsible for removing amelogenin fragments. The delay in removal impairs crystal growth and makes the enamel more porous (Bronckers et al. 2002). DenBesten et al. (2002) showed that rats exposed to fluoride in drinking water at 50 or 100 mg/L had lower total proteinase activity per unit of protein than control rats. Fluoride apparently interferes with protease activities by decreasing free Ca2+ concentrations in the mineralizing milieu (Aoba and Fejerskov 2002).

Matsuo et al. (1998) investigated the mechanism of enamel fluorosis in rats administered sodium fluoride (NaF) at 20 mg/kg by subcutaneous injections for 4 days or at 240 mg/L in drinking water for 4 weeks. They found that fluoride alters intracellular transport in the secretory ameloblasts and suggested that G proteins play a role in the transport disturbance. They found different immunoblotting-and-pertussis-toxin-sensitive G proteins on the rough endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi membranes of the germ cells of rats’ incisor teeth.

HEALTH ISSUES AND CLINICAL TREATMENT

Whether to consider enamel fluorosis, particularly the moderate to severe forms, an adverse cosmetic effect or an adverse health effect has been the subject of debate for decades. Some early literature suggests that the clinical course of caries could be compromised by untreated severe enamel fluorosis. Smith and Smith (1940, pp.1050-1051) observed,

“There is ample evidence that mottled teeth, though they be somewhat more resistant to the onset of decay, are structurally weak, and that unfortunately when decay does set in, the result is often disastrous.”

Caries once started evidently spreads rapidly. Steps taken to repair the cavities in many cases were unsuccessful, the tooth breaking away when attempts were made to anchor the fillings, so that extraction was the only course.” Gruebbel (1952, p.153) expressed a similar viewpoint: “Severe mottling is as destructive to teeth as is dental caries. Therefore, when the concentration is excessive, defluorination or a new water supply should be recommended. The need for removing excessive amounts of fluorides calls attention to the peculiar situation in public health practice in which a chemical substance is added to water in some localities to prevent a disease and the same chemical substance is removed in other localities to prevent another disease.” Dean advised that when the average child in a community has mild fluorosis (0.6 on his scale, described in the next section), “… it begins to constitute a public health problem warranting increasing consideration” (Dean 1942, p. 29).

There appears to be general acceptance in today’s dental literature that enamel fluorosis is a toxic effect of fluoride intake that, in its severest forms, can produce adverse effects on dental health, such as tooth function and caries experience. For example:

1. “The most severe forms of fluorosis manifest as heavily stained, pitted, and friable enamel that can result in loss of dental function” (Burt and Eklund 1999).

2. “In more severely fluorosed teeth, the enamel is pitted and discolored and is prone to fracture and wear” 

   (ATSDR 2003, p. 19).

3. “The degree of porosity (hypermineralization) of such teeth results in a diminished physical strength of the enamel, and parts of the superficial enamel may break away … In the most severe forms of dental fluorosis, the extent and degree of porosity within the enamel are so severe that most of the outermost enamel will be chipped off immediately following eruption” (Fejerskov et al. 1990, p. 694).

4. “With increasing severity, the subsurface enamel all along the tooth becomes increasingly porous … the more severe forms are subject to extensive mechanical breakdown of the surface” (Aoba and Fejerskov 2002, p. 159).

5. “With more severe forms of fluorosis, caries risk increases because of pitting and loss of the outer enamel” (Levy 2003, p. 286).

6. “ … the most severe forms of dental fluorosis might be more than a cosmetic defect if enough fluorotic enamel is fractured and lost to cause pain, adversely affect food choices, compromise chewing efficiency, and require complex dental treatment” (NRC 1993, p. 48).

Severe enamel fluorosis is treated to prevent further enamel loss and to address the cosmetic appearance of teeth. Treatments include bleaching, microabrasion, and the application of veneers or crowns. Bleaching and microabrasion are typically used with the mild to moderate forms of enamel fluorosis. Bleaching is the least invasive procedure, but does not eliminate the dark stains associated with severe enamel fluorosis. Microabrasion involves the controlled abrasion of enamel to remove superficial stains… ❞

NOTE: The full text available on line, → HERE ←

However it does not address the matter of the nutrition, and
the variations in results e.g. vitamin C, magnesium, intake etc.

                       — Don't Let Your Diet be Dictated by Corporate Agendas —

     ❝…fluoride reduces the level of thyroid hormone during tooth development, by activation calcium-transducing G-protein receptor G q/11, there is delayed tooth eruption, delayed removal of enamel matrix proteins, and delayed enamel maturation. The evidence of the deficiency is seen later with mottled teeth… ❞
           Extract from: ‘FLUORIDE FATIGUE’  by Bruce Spittle.

     The complexities of halogen chemistry are legion and it is that very complexity that is employed by the less scrupulous fluorine advocates to stifle protest from their adversaries with pseudo- scientific, convoluted terminology, which very often they themselves do not understand.

Very much a matter of  ‘the blind leading the blind’.

Fluorine is an element. Atomic number 9. Atomic weight 18.9984. Symbol F. Fluorine is a halogen. There are five halogens known to contemporary science. In alphabetical order these are: Astatine, Bromine, Chlorine, FLUORINE and Iodine.

Fluorine is one of the most poisonous substances known to the science of toxicology.
The word ‘halogen’ is derived from the Greek, hals meaning salt and genes meaning born. The word refers to the propensity of the element to combine with Sodium.

Examples are: Sodium Bromide, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Fluoride and so forth.

This ‘mixture’ of a halogen and one or more other substances is called a ‘halide’,
the letter “IDE” being affixed to the first letters of the particular halogen title.
Thus Bromine compounded with something else becomes a Bromide.
A Chlorine compound likewise becomes a Chloride and a
Fluorine compound becomes a Fluoride.

The other ingredient(s) of the halide are included in the title to completely identify the halide chemically. So Sodium mixed with Chlorine becomes Sodium Chloride. Potassium mixed with Bromine becomes Potassium Bromide and Calcium mixed with Fluorine becomes Calcium Fluoride and so on for literally thousands of simple and complex combinations.

For all practical purposes the element FLUORINE cannot exist as a single entity.
It must always associate with another substance or substances to exist.
That is to say it is only found as a ‘fluoride’.

In this need for existence, Fluorine, more so than the other halogen elements, will combine avidly with almost any other substance or substances, taking its deadly potential along with it to impart a lethal hazard to what was formerly a most innocent and benign material. The resultant degree of toxicity is not in debate here.

A well recognized example of this ‘chemical corruption’ is in the medicinal drug “Fluorouracil” whereby the vital and totally inoffensive human metabolite
“uracil” is converted into a deadly ‘cytotoxic’ (meaning – cell destructive)
killer compound.

So then simple (duplex) Fluorine based compounds can combine or be combined with one or more other virtually harmless substances to create a chemical killer of considerable complexity and extreme danger. A ‘triplex’ Fluoride is Sodium Fluoroacetate, marketed under the cover name of Compound 1080.

Another is Fluoroacetamide (Compound 1081).

The designed deadliness of both these FLUORIDE products is legend and promoted under the 1080 and 1081 labels but the close chemical relationship with the Sodium Fluoride in your water supply is vehemently denied. Much less admitted.

Other examples of multiple fluorides are “SARIN”
(Isopropyl methyl-phosphoFLUORIDATE) and

“SOMAN” (Pinacolyl methylphos-phonoFLUORIDATE).

Both these ‘fluorides’ are nerve gasses, one drop of either of which,
absorbed through the skin, will kill an adult human, in seconds.
In the Martindale Extra Pharmacopoeia, under the heading
Sodium Fluoride is the sub-heading “and other Fluorine Compounds”
which include both 1080 and 1081.

Other data and relevant physiologic aspects of Fluorides have been set out in “The Dickinson Statement”. In closing this paper it should be pointed out that Fluorides are toxic to animals in a number of chemical and bio-chemical ways.
CORROSIVE, ANTI-METABOLIC, ALLERGENIC, CARCINOGENIC, SYSTEMIC,
ENZYME INHIBITING and CUMULATIVE are among the popular
description of the toxic activity of fluorides.

As an “acute” poison, a comparatively large dose may be needed to cause extinction but as a “chronic” toxin, neither the microscopic amounts needed nor the period of exposure (to cause death) have ever been evaluated. However, as an awesome indication, time lapse photography of the activity of living mammalian cells under the influence of ONE PART OF SODIUM FLUORIDE TO 60 MILLION PARTS OF WATER demonstrates almost immediate extinction of the cells. Fluoridated tap water contains an “average” of – TWO PARTS OF SODIUM FLUORIDE TO ONE MILLION PARTS OF WATER.

Suffice it now to say that in the final analysis all FLUORIDES are killers and who-so-ever administers, or causes to be administered any Fluoride on any pretext, by accident or by design to any person of any age is, by simple definition a KILLER.

Ian E. Stephens, 8 June 1988.  [ For more info by same author see → HERE  ]

Although 1 part fluoride ion in one million is argued to be ‘safe’ for human consumption, understand that one liter of water fluoridated with 1.0 ppm fluoride ion contains around 3.18 billion billion atoms of fluoride ion.

The toxic action of fluoride resides in the fact that fluoride ions act as enzymatic poisons, inhibiting enzyme activity and, ultimately, interrupting metabolic processes such as glycolysis
and synthesis of proteins.

    Do you enjoy tales of intrigue, conspiracy and corruption? Then ‘The Fluoride Deception’ by Christopher Bryson won’t disappoint. It’s a very well written, meticulously researched expose´ of the history of fluoridation, which Dr Robert Carton (formerly of the US Environmental Protection Agency) has described as “the greatest case of scientific fraud of this (20th) century, if not of all time”. It’s a history of “greed, collusion, personal aggrandizement, corporate and government cover-up,” littered with human tragedy and the tattered careers of scientists who dared to try to expose the truth.

‘Esteemed Voices‘ have, for 50 years, warned the American public that water fluoridation has dangerous long-term consequences to health:

“I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs.
Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effects on a long range basis.
Any attempt to use water this way is deplorable.”
          Dr. Charles Gordon Heyd,
          Past President of the American Medical Association.

Albert Schatz

❝ Contrary to what is widely assumed, the toxicity of
fluoride is not always related to concentration.
Under certain conditions fluoride toxicity actually
increases as the concentration decreases.
This is what is known as a paradoxical effect. ❞

 Albert Schatz, Ph.D., M.C.R.S., Professor at the
University of Chile & co-discoverer of streptomycin.  

     

→  How We Got Fluoridated  ←
by Philip Heggen … April 1999

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Fluoridation New York 1963

No physician in his right senses would prescribe for someone
he has never met, whose medical history he does not
know, a substance which is intended to create bodily
change, with the advice: “Take as much as you like,
but you will take it for the rest of your life because some 
people say that it can reduce tooth decay in children.”
Dr Peter Mansfield, Director Templegarth Trust,
Birmingham, UK.

 FLUORIDATION SAFE AND EFFECTIVE?

UN 2674 – Inhalation Hazard Class 6.1 Placards

Truth Suppressed Fraud And Intimidation

FOODS THAT CONTAIN FLUORIDE-Database

Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz Responds to
the Aust. Government’s  Fluoride Campaign 

–  Official Corruption –

Fluoridation of public drinking water is proof
that $cience has entered a mini dark age.

FLUORIDE-CHANGES TO BRAINS, SPINAL CORD & SCIATIC NERVE IN RATS

‘ROMANS’ TEETH BETTER THAN MODERN BRITONS.

New Zealand

Fluoridation Ended In Israel

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