Re: Is this really child abuse?

From: Joel M. Eichen, D.D.S. (joeleichen_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:55:38 -0400

Sally, you are misguided!

JOEL

On 20 Jul 2004 04:45:07 -0700, suite1oh1@aol.com (Sally) wrote:

>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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