Let Them Eat Fluoride

Today is the 71st birthday of the biggest public health blunder of all time - water fluoridation. Science tells us fluoridation is outdated, ineffective and harmful. However, hundreds of millions of dollars are spent propping up and implementing fluoridation by organized dentistry, dental insurance companies, oral health coalitions, children’s dental health groups and industries that sell the stuff.

Today, the General Accounting Office reports that Medicaid children still aren’t getting the care they need, mainly because most dentists won’t accept Medicaid patients.

Yet dentists claim that they care so very much about poor children that they want them to drink fluoride every single day – even though they have no evidence that any child is fluoride-deficient whether low-income or not. In fact, the opposite is true, CDC reports that up to 60% of adolescents are fluoride-overdosed and are afflicted with dental fluorosis – white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth. Yet, tooth decay crises occurs in all fluoridated cities and states. See http://www.FluorideNews.Blogspot.com

Evidence is mounting that shows fluoride damages more than teeth and is ineffective. For example, in 2015 the following were reported or published.

1. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

The study entitled, “Exposure to fluoridated water and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder prevalence among children and adolescents in the United States: an ecological association,” was published in the journal Environmental Health. The authors, psychologists Christine Till and Ashley Malin at Toronto’s York University, discovered that states with a higher rate of artificially fluoridated water had a higher prevalence of ADHD.

2. Hypothyroidism (Study links fluoridation to thyroid disease)

The study, entitled “Are fluoride levels in drinking water associated with hypothyroidism prevalence in England? A large observational study of GP practice data and fluoride levels in drinking water,” is the first study to ever look at fluoridation and hypothyroidism in a large population (in this case, England).

The findings led to the researchers calling for a “rethink of public health policy to fluoridate the water supply,” adding “consideration needs to be given to reducing fluoride exposure, and public dental health interventions should stop [those] reliant on ingested fluoride and switch to topical fluoride-based and non-fluoride-based interventions.”

3. New IQ Study Links Fluorosis to Neurotoxicity

This new pilot study in China, Association of lifetime exposure to fluoride and cognitive functions in Chinese children: A pilot study, (by Choi AL, et al. 2015) published in Neurotoxicology and Teratology was carried out at fluoride levels, which overlap levels used in U.S. fluoridation programs. They didn’t measure IQ specifically in this study but reported the results of a very simple test: the child’s ability to repeat a sequence of numbers both forwards and backwards. Even children with very mild dental fluorosis performed poorer on this specific mental development test, than children without fluorosis

4. HHS Admits Overexposing Americans to Fluoride

In May, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) admitted that the fluoride levels, which they promoted and encouraged as safe, has damaged children’s teeth. Because of the huge increase in dental fluorosis (white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth) on the teeth of at least 41% of young teenagers, HHS says that water fluoride levels should be lowered to 0.7 mg/L (formerly most communities used 1 mg/L while the guideline was 0.7 – 1.2 mg/L) and in ten years they’ll check children’s teeth to see if they were right about this new level.

5. The Evidence Keeps Piling Up

• UK Cochrane Group could find no quality research proving fluoridation reduces tooth decay, but did find that 40% of children in fluoridated areas have dental fluorosis.


• An American Journal of Public Health article (Carstairs, 2015) reports fluoridation was adopted prematurely without harms and risks fully explored.

• A Legal Scholar reports that fluoridation violates numerous legal and ethical human subjects research protocols (William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review)

• In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, FAN uncovered documents showing that since 1962 officials at the U.S. Public Health Service knew that black Americans were disproportionately harmed by fluoride with significantly higher rates of dental fluorosis (permanent damage to the enamel) rates compared to white Americans. But for over 40 years they hid this information from communities of color.

• At least 75 more studies report adverse fluoride effects in animals and humans.

Some useful information for communities fighting fluoridation

• Water Fluoridation and Environmental Justice. A report by FAN submitted to the EJ Interagency Working Group in response to their solicitation for public comments in September. This group comprises all of the U.S. regulatory agencies. http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/ej-report-9-25-15.pdf

• Submission to the National Toxicology Program in response to its solicitation for public comments on its nomination of fluoride as a developmental neurotoxin and endocrine disruptor. http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/connett-ntp.11-6-15.pdf


People need to take back their water supplies from the special interest groups and demand that their local legislators vote to stop fluoridation and demand of their state and federal legislators to stop funding or accepting funds for fluoridation schemes anywhere in your state, whether from government or private entities.