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Unintentially, studies by dentist/researchers indicate fluoridation
fails to reduce tooth decay, especially in the poor. Also, fluoride,
above that found in toothpaste, confers no added benefit to the
majority(14).
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- * In CONNECTICUT, 88.8% fluoridated for decades,
cavity rates increased - average number of decayed, missing, or filled
tooth surfaces (dmfs) increased from 2.8 to 3.0 and average dmfs in
cavity-positive children increased substantially from 5.7 to 7.9,
recently reported (1) by Connecticut Dentists.
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- * In fluoridated NEWBURGH, NEW YORK, despite 50
years of fluoridation, many children have more cavities than
never-fluoridated Kingston, New York, according to a New York State
Department of Health study (2).
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- * National cavity rates average 1.4 DMFT (decayed,
missing, filled teeth)(3) in over 62% fluoridated U.S.A.
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- * A FLORIDA fluoridated county - Three- to five-year
olds studied averaged 3.05 to 4.05 dmfs(4). (Children have 128 tooth
surfaces, in 28 teeth. So, dmfs is a more sensitive cavity counter
than dmft. Some teeth have five surfaces.)
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- * Non-fluoridated LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK,
second-graders are more cavity-free than nationally (5) ranging from
no cavities to 0.6 dmfs in 1987-88.
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- * NEW YORK CITY, fluoridated for decades, 7-8
year-olds averaged 2.43 to 3.14 dft (decayed, filled primary teeth)
1993, according to "Dispelling the Myth that 50 Percent of US
Schoolchildren Have Never Had a Cavity," by dentists Edelstein and
Douglass(6).
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- * Edelstein and Douglass cite studies that
show:
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- 1. CALIFORNIA, the fluoridated parts - 4.80 dfs in a
group of 3- to 5-year olds - 1990.
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- 2. Fluoridated NORTH CAROLINA - peak rates of 5.3
for 9- year-old males and 4.7 for 8-year-old females - 1990
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- 3. Fluoridated TENNESSEE - Peak rates of 7.26 dfs
and 2.61 dft at age 7
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- * Fluoridated TENNESSEE - five- to eleven-year-olds
averaged 6.94 dfs (7)
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- * Fluoridated IOWA - low socioeconomic 8-year-olds
4.0 dfs(8)
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- * Nonfluoridated FINLAND decay rates lower than U.S.
- 1.1 dmft for 5-year-olds and 0.2 DMFT for 6-year-olds.(10)
-
- * UGANDAN (Africa) 10- to 14-year-old children, with
water their only fluoride source, have less cavities than U.S
children(9) that increase along with greater water fluoride
levels.
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- * IRELAND, 73% fluoridated - 12-year-olds are more
cavity-prone than 12-year-olds in four non-fluoridated European
countries and 10% fluoridated U.K.(11).
-
- * Cavities declined WORLD-WIDE, even in
non-fluoridated countries
- (See:
http://www.fluoridealert.org/abstracts.htm#industrialized).
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- * U.S. children are over-fluoridated(12). Yet,
"(t)he nation's dentists are beginning to notice an alarming rise in
cavities among children and teens," reports the Wall Street
Journal(13).
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- "It's pointless to fluoridate water when the
documented health risks of fluoride far overshadow any possible
benefit, if any," says lawyer Paul S. Beeber, President, NYS Coalition
Opposed to Fluoridation.
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- "Lack of fluoride is not associated with tooth
decay, and fluoride won't help a poor diet as these studies and
reports show," says Beeber
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- Contacts: Paul Beeber, NYS Coalition Opposed to
Fluoridation, nyscof@aol.com,
- http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof &
http://www.fluoridealert.org
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- David Kennedy, DDS, davidkennedy-dds@cox.net,
Preventive Dental Health Association
- http://emporium.turnpike.net/P/PDHA/health.htm
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- END
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- References:
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- (1) "Elements of effective action to improve oral
health & access to dental care for Connecticut's Children &
Families," by James J. Crall, DDS and Burton L. Edelstein, DDS, Date:
2001 or 2002
- http://www.cthealth.org/site/oralhealth/bgroundmat/environscan.pdf
Beginning of report:
- http://www.cthealth.org/site/oralhealth/oralhealthsum.pdf
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- (2)Figure 1, Page 41, "Recommendations for Fluoride
Use in children" NYS Dental Journal, February 1998 by dentists Kumar
and Green. "More Fluoride - More Cavities,"
- http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof/_pgg2.php3
-
- (3) World Health Organization data:
http://www.whocollab.od.mah.se/amro.html and "Trends in Total Caries
Experience: Permanent and Primary Teeth, " Journal of the American
Dental Association, Brown, et al, February 2002
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=
- PubMed&list_uids=1
0680391&dopt=Abstract
-
- (4) "Assessing the effect of fluoride varnish on
early enamel carious lesions in the primary dentition," Journal of the
American Dental Association, September 2001, Autio-Gold JT, et
al
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- (5) Page four of ERIE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT
COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENT - FAMILY HEALTH
http://wings.buffalo.edu/wny/health/den.pdf
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- (6) Public Health Reports 1995 by Burton L.
Edelstein, DDS, MPH and Chester W. Douglass, DDS, PhD,
September/October , Vol 110
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- (7) "Community Fluoridation Status and Caries
Experience in Children," Journal of Public Health Dentistry, Summer
2001
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- (8) "Results of the 1999 Iowa Oral Health Survey,"
by Arjes, et al
- http://www.idph.state.ia.us/fch/dental/1999_oral_survey.pdf
-
- (9) Dental caries among 10- to 14-year-old children
in Ugandan rural areas with 0.5 and 2.5 mg fluoride per liter in
drinking water, Clinical Oral Investigations, March 2001, by Rwenyonyi
CM, et al,
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1
- 1355098&dopt=Abstract and NYSCOF news release:
- http://www.enn.com/direct/display-release.asp?id=4770
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- (10) Caries-Preventive Treatment Approaches for
Child and Youth at Two Extremes of Dental Health in Helsinki, Finland,
Sinikka Varsio 1999
- http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/laa/hamma/vk/varsio/cariespr.html
-
- (11) British Medical Journal, Letter from Irish
Dentist Don MacAuley, Water fluoridation is a medical and dental
controversy. 19 November 2000
- http://bmj.com/cgi/eletters/321/7271/1287/a#10887
-
- (12) "Prevalence and trends in enamel fluorosis in
the United States from the 1930s to the 1980s," Journal of the
American Dental Association, February 2002 by Beltran-Aguilar ED et
al, and
- http://www.enn.com/direct/display-release.asp?id=6264
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- (13) The Wall Street Journal, "Health Journal: As
kids' cavities rise, some dentists advocate using tooth sealants,"
Tara Parker-Pope, March 8, 2002
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- (14) Public Health Nutrition 4(2B), 569-591
2001"Dietary Effects on Dental Diseases,"
- by Sheiham
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve
- &db=PubMed&list_uids=1
1683551&dopt=Abstract
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- Newspaper and other articles reporting rampant tooth
decay in fluoridated areas:
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- * 83% fluoridation Western Australia (where
children's dental care is free) experiencing serious tooth decay in
five year olds:
- http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,
- 7034,4212083%255E2761,00. html
-
- * Detroit, Michigan, fluoridated since 1967
"describes one visit to a metro Detroit school where the majority of
the children she treated had 'at least 10 cavities.'"
- http://www.freep.com/news/health/dent20_20010220.htm
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- * Fluoridated Water Not Preventing Rampant Decay
Among Southbridge's (MA) Poor
- http://www.fluoridealert.org/news/Mass/southbridge.htm
-
- * Dental Health Crisis in Fluoridated Miami Dade and
Broward Counties, Florida,
- http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/2002/03/12/entertainment/2840646.htm
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- * 88.8% fluoridated Connecticut has an oral health
epidemic:
- http://www.med.yale.edu/chldstdy/CTvoices/kidslink/kidslink2/health/texts/jshaw7
2400.html
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- * Fluoridated since 1983 "...in Bladen County (NC)
about 32 percent of kindergarten children screened have untreated
tooth
- decay..."http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2713951&BRD=1118&PAG=461&
- dept _id=92165&rfi=6
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- * Oral health crisis in 100% fluoridated Kentucky
11/26/01 reported by the Associated Press
- http://www.fluoridealert.org/news/kentucky/AP.Nov.26.01.htm
-
- * Tooth decay the least of huge problems in poor
children in fluoridated Marion, South Carolina
- http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/2930943.htm
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- * Children in fluoridated Washington DC, age 6, have
five or six teeth with cavities
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A38732
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- 2002Mar4¬Found=true
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- * "Poor diet is the single biggest culprit in
cavities..." Finally, the truth in an article that tells us again that
tooth decay is rampant in a fluoridated city - this time in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- http://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20020402hclinic5.asp
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- * New York City 100% fluoridated since about 1965
"Bleeding gums, impacted teeth, rotting teeth are routine matters in
the children....Children get used to feeling the constant pain. They
go to sleep with it. They go to school with it....The gradual
attrition of accepted pain erodes energy and aspiration." Jonathan
Kozol 1991. Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools. quoted
in Oral Disease: A Crisis among Children of Poverty
- http://www.ncemch.org/pubs/PDFs/ohcrisis598.pdf
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- * Despite decades of water fluoridation in Aiken
County, South Carolina, "We haven't made a significant dent in the
rate of dental disease in the 0-3 age group in the past 20 years..."
- http://www.augustachronicle.com/stories/042102/met_201-3191.000.shtml
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- * Tooth Decay Trends: Fluoridated Vs. Unfluoridated
Countries
- http://www.fluoridealert.org/WHO-DMFT.htm
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- For more information, contact: Paul Beeber President
New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridaton 516-378-7309
nyscof@aol.com Web site: http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof
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