Re: Is this really child abuse?

From: Sally (suite1oh1_at_aol.com)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: 20 Jul 2004 04:45:07 -0700

purple543210@yahoo.ca (Alexander Vasserman DDS., BS.) wrote in message

> Scientists have done experiments with radio isotopes of NaF* in
> animals and found systemic fluoride gets incorporated in bone and
> teeth.
> They have also compared these teeth and bones to controls such as
> animals from same parent animals. Found that teeth and bones with
> fluoride are stronger.
>

                     Fluoridation Bad To The Bone

Dentists have long bragged that the fluoride they advocated into water
supplies to prevent tooth decay, unanticipatedly, helps bones. But the
evidence doesn't support that claim. In fact, some studies link
fluoridated water to hip fractures (3) and wrist fractures (4), often
an early osteoporosis warning sign. And dental fluorosis may be a red
flag for future bone fractures (5).

Fluoride toxicity or overdose, during childhood, is visible by dental
fluorosis - white spotted, yellow or brown stained and sometimes
pitted teeth. Adults may experience joint pain, stiffness and stomach
disorders.

Dental fluorosis prevalence ranges up to 81% in fluoridated
communities and up to 42% in non-fluoridated communities. In a mouse
model experiment (6) Everett and colleagues found, even mild dental
fluorosis may be an indication of high bone fluoride content.

"The early symptoms of skeletal fluorosis, include stiffness and pain
in the joints. In severe cases, the bone structure may change and
ligaments may calcify, with resulting impairment of muscles and pain,"
according to United Nations Environment Programme. (7) According to
Dr. A. K. Susheela, India's leading fluorosis expert, early symptoms
of skeletal fluorosis can also be nausea, vomiting, pain in the
stomach, bloated feeling or gas formation in the stomach, constipation
followed by diarrhea, frequent urination, excessive thirst, muscle
weakness, fatigue, or anemia

Crippling skeletal fluorosis is common in some countries where the
water is naturally fluoridated, usually at high levels, sometimes at
low levels, and exacerbated by poor diet.

A recent study shows that, at 1.7 parts per million (ppm) mean
fluoride concentrations, 7.4% of adults showed evidence of skeletal
fluorosis. Deformities such as crippling, kyphosis, invalidism and
genu-varum were observed frequently in higher age group subjects (> 48
years) at a fluoride concentration of 3.3 ppm. Radiological findings
of other deformities in fluorotic subjects were also found (8).

The USA purposely fluoridates water supplies up to 1.2 ppm.
Unfortunately, many Americans ingest much more, but unknown amounts,
via food, beverages, medicines, dental products and inhale even more
fluoride via air pollution, ocean mist, and shower and bath steam in
fluoridated communities.

Research by Canada's foremost authority on fluoride, University of
Toronto's head of preventive dentistry, biochemist and dentist Dr.
Hardy Limeback, found that the hip bones of fluoridated Torontonians
hold deposits of about twice the concentration of bone-weakening
fluoride as the hip bones of unfluoridated Montrealers.

You can see extreme cases of skeletal fluorosis in a video of fluoride
victims living in India here:
http://www.nalgonda.org/images/nlg250.wmv

The rest of the article and references:
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/11749/96833

Sally Stride
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/fluoridation.htm

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