Water Fluoridation

by still thinking 136 Replies latest jw friends

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  still thinking

  What the CDC failed to mention is that tooth decay rates have “precipitously declined” in all western countries, irrespective of whether the country ever fluoridated its water. Indeed, most western countries do not fluoridate their water and yet their tooth decay rates have declined at the same rate as the U.S. and other fluoridated countries. This fact, which is widely acknowledged in the dental literature, can be quickly demonstrated by examining the World Health Organization’s (WHO) data on tooth decay trends in each country. The following two figures and table, for example, compare the tooth decay trends in western countries with, and without, water (or salt) fluoridation.

  

  But hey! what do the World Health Organisation know? Lets see what the CDC says.
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  still thinking

  More from the World Health Organisation.

  DMFT (Decayed, Missing & Filled teeth) Status for 12 year olds by Country- World Health Organization Data (2012) -
  Country	DMFTs	Year	Status*
  Denmark	0.7	2008	No water fluoridation. No salt fluoridation.
  Germany	0.7	2005	No water fluoridation. 67% salt fluoridation.
  England	0.7	2009	11% water fluoridation. No salt fluoridation.
  Netherlands*	0.8	2002	No water fluoridation. No salt fluoridation.
  Switzerland**	0.82	2009	No water fluoridation. 88% salt fluoridation.
  Belgium	0.9	2009-10	No water fluoridation. No salt fluoridation.
  Sweden	0.9	2008	No water fluoridation. No salt fluoridation.
  Australia	1.0	2003-2004	80% water fluoridation. No salt fluoridation.
  Austria	1.0	2002	No water fluoridation. 6% salt fluoridation.
  Ireland	1.1	2002	100% water fluoridation in study. No salt fluoridation.
  Italy	1.1	2004	No water fluoridation. No salt fluoridation.
  United States	1.19	1999-2004	64% water fluoridation. No salt fluoridation.
  Finland	1.2	2006	No water fluoridation. No salt fluoridation.
  France	1.2	2006	No water fluoridation. 65% salt fluoridation.
  Spain	1.3	2004	11% water fluoridation. 10% salt fluoridation.
  Greece	1.35	2005-06	No water fluoridation. No salt fluoridation.
  Iceland	1.4	2005	No water fluoridation. No salt fluoridation.
  New Zealand	1.4	2009	61% water fluoridation. No salt fluoridation.
  Japan	1.7	2005	No water fluoridation. No salt fluoridation.
  Norway	1.7	2004	No water fluoridation. No salt fluoridation.
  * The Hague | ** Zurich
  Tooth Decay data from: World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Education, Training, and Research in Oral Health, Malmö University, Sweden. http://www.mah.se/CAPP/ Salt fluoridation data from: Gotzfried F. (2006). Legal aspects of fluoride in salt, particularly within the EU. Schweiz Monatsschr Zahnmed 116:371-75.
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  jgnat

  AND YET these organizations are not advocating the end to water flouridation. Hmmm?
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  jgnat

  I told you what I trusted. No bureaucrat is going to set out to poison people. There is no hidden cabal intent on sinister purpose. Even for insane profit. Insane profit is hazardous. Much safer is mediocrity.
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  Berengaria

  There is no hidden cabal intent on sinister purpose. Even for insane profit.

  Ahhh hah. Are you familiar with the Military Industrial Complex? How about Smeddly Butler? Chevron in Niger, Dow in Bopal.....................the list goes on.
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  jgnat

  All much more easily explained by incompetence and inertia, Berengaria.
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  JeffT

  Flouridation costs about $.50-3.00 per person/yr. Larger population centers cost less. If we take 1.75 as average (probably too high) the total cost in the US is about 550 million/yr - about 1/3 of what we spend PER DAY on gasoline, or 1/180th of our annual beer expenditures. Not exactly a big money maker for a chemical company.

  http://www.wda.org/wp_super_faq/how-much-does-community-water-fluoridation-cost

  http://www.chacha.com/question/how-much-does-the-average-american-spend-every-year-on-beer
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  Berengaria

  All much more easily explained by incompetence and inertia, Berengaria.

  Wow
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  mP

  Bungi

  While remaining rather sceptical towards this negative publicity about adding fluoride to public water supplies, there is something that I feel compelled to say here. According to Statistics New Zealand (June 2012 population estimates), New Zealand has 15 cities - not three, as has been claimed. Also, anybody that reckons Hamilton has only five traffic lights has very obviously never counted these for themselves! Likewise for the claim that you can walk from one end of the town to the other in 30 minutes. (Yeah - that I would like to see!) Hamilton does have its own research facilities, at the University of Waikato.

  mP:

  I looked looked up Hamilton on Google maps. YOu might want to call it a city and thats fine, but its still a small place. Measure from one end to another and its barely a few kms and definitely less than 10. Its only got 3 roads going north south and another 3 going west to east. Going on google street view most streets are one land and you rarely meet a traffic light. Small towns like that are great and theres no shame in that.

  While the U of W may be a fine place, i highly doubt they have ever been commissioned by the government of the city to perform any research on fluorodation. They may research stuff but given its modest size they cant be expected to research many things.
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  still thinking

  No bureaucrat is going to set out to poison people.

  And you know this how?

  You sound VERY confident in your assertian. I guess crime never happens....anywhere. Because no one ever sets out to commit one.

  That's just a logical.