Re: Is this really child abuse?

From: Alexander Vasserman DDS., BS. (purple543210_at_yahoo.ca)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: 21 Jul 2004 00:08:13 -0700

suite1oh1@aol.com (Sally) wrote in message news:<f3becf0.0407200345.79dd0184@posting.google.com>...
> 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

Sally,

Do yourself a favour don't drink the water and we'll see you when you
need that root canal.

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