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Aprill wrote in message . au...
HI all, Given our recent tank talk I am curious about what people do about flouride, if anything. I have seen the wonders of flouride in our urban drinking water and I am wondering do any of you take any measures with your rain water? cheerio, aprill Actually, researchers found little or no difference in decay rates between Australian children who drink fluoridated tap water and those who drink non-fluoridated tank or bottled water. Here's the story. Fluoridation: No Benefit, Another Study Shows New York -- August 2004 -- Dental examinations of 4800 South Australian ten- to fifteen-year-olds' permanent teeth reveal unexpected results - similar cavity rates whether they drink fluoridated water or not, reports Armfield and Spencer in the August 2004 "Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology"(1). Children sampled lived in fluoridated and nonfluoridated metropolitan and rural areas of the Australian state, South Australia. Collected rainwater, or tank water, is the main non-fluoridated (non-public) water source for 37% of South Australians, 8% drink bottled water. The public water supply is fluoridated in Adelaide, South Australia's capital city. The rest of South Australia is predominantly non-fluoridated, the authors report. "The effect of consumption of nonpublic (non-fluoridated) water on permanent caries (cavities) experience was not significant," report Armfield and Spencer. "It should be noted that, as discussed here, the drinking of bottled or tank water is neither immediately deleterious nor beneficial to oral health in and of itself," write the authors. The American Dental Association asserts that fluoridation provides 15-35% cavity reductions in fourteen to seventeen-year-olds. But South Australian adolescents averaged less than 1 ½ decayed, missing or filled permanent tooth surfaces (28 teeth have 128 surfaces), whether they drank fluoridated water or not. Actually, many studies show, after fluoridation ceases, cavities decline(2). Others reveal fluoridation is ineffective at reducing tooth decay(3a-j). The media recently used the Australian study to blame fluoride-free bottled or tank water for increased cavity rates in primary or baby teeth(4). However, no decay data was included for one- to four-year-olds, the children with the most baby teeth. The studied group (5100 five- to nine-year-olds) already shed primary teeth, perhaps some decayed. This places doubt on the validity of the conclusion that fluoridated water is linked to decreased primary-tooth cavities in this population sample. "Cities waste millions of dollars fluoridating their water supplies; but the poor, malnourished or less educated still get the most cavities and the least dental care," says lawyer Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation. "Dental health crises exist in many, fluoridated cities(5); while residents of non-fluoridated Wichita, Kansas and Long Island, NY, have better dental health than many fluoridated areas(6)," says Beeber. In fact, non-water-fluoridated Finland, Sweden and Holland have cut tooth decay rates by 92%, 82% and 72% respectively over the past 20 years. (7) In the US, where around 60% of the country's water supply, and virtually all foods and beverages, is fluoridated, health chiefs only managed to cut rates by 50% over the same period.(7) References: 1) Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, August 2004 Consumption of nonpublic water: implications for children's caries experience, byArmfield JM, Spencer AJ. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q..._uids=15239780 2) "When Fluoridation Ends - So Do Cavities" http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof/_pgg6.php3 3a) Quintessence Internation, May 2002, "Dental caries and fluorosis in low- and high-fluoride areas in Turkey. Ermis RB, Koray F, Akdeniz BG. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Abstract b) Journal of Rural Health, Summer 2003, "Oral health status of children and adolescents by rural residence, United States." by Clemencia M. Vargas, DDS, PhD; Cynthia R. Ronzio, PhD; and Kathy L. Hayes, DMD, MPH http://www.nrharural.org/JRH/JRH19-3/rurh-19-03-260.pdf c) http://www.enn.com/direct/display-re...3F2C0618E21B27 d) FLUORIDE 31(2), 1998, pp 103-118 http://www.fluoride-journal.com/98-31-2/312103.htm e) http://www.fluoridealert.org/diesendorf.htm f) http://www.slweb.org/glass-1981.html g) http://www.slweb.org/gray-1987.html h) http://www.fluoridealert.org/DMFTs.htm i) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...t_uids=8402302 j) http://www.fluoridation.com/caries1.htm 4) http://www.theage.com.au/articles/20...?oneclick=true (5) Cavity Crises Exist in Fluoridated Cities http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof2/_pgg6.php3 (6) "Dentists Award the Cavity-prone and Toothless," http://www.enn.com/direct/display-re...B93DC906D7E56F (7) How Other Countries Have Stopped the Rot; THE INTERNATIONAL SOLUTION Evening Times; Glasgow (UK) Aug 19, 01:49 AM EST http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk or http://businesscontent.verizon.net/p...ory=Computers& New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof http://www.orgsites.com/ny/newyorkst...tofluoridation http://www.freewebs.com/nyscof Fluoride NewsTracker Blog http://www.fluoridenews.blogspot.com Fluoride Action Network http://www.fluoridealert.org |
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