Whenever there is a volcanic eruption, you will find that it is always the fluoride in the ash that causes the teeth of wildlife and farm animals to CRUMBLE and FALL OUT. It is only the fluoride that is to blame for this damage. It causes bones to break. But somehow dentists believe if you put this bio accumulative poison in a toothpaste tube or in tap water it becomes a miraculous substance that benefits everyone's teeth. How STUPID do dentists expect everyone to be? Fluoride bio accumulates in the teeth and bones forever

See online article, "Toxic Ash Threatens Iceland Animals "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8629241.stm

"It [fluoride] also binds with calcium in the blood stream and after heavy exposure over a period of days makes bones frail, even causing teeth to CRUMBLE."

See online article, "Volcanic Ash Could Hover For Days Over Europe"
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2010/04/18/news/bb8iceland15th041810.txt

"The ash is toxic — the fluoride causes long-term bone damage that makes TEETH FALL OUT and bones break."

And dental fluorosis due to chronic fluoride overexposure seems to be a little more than just cosmetic. See "Comparative Toxicity of Fluorine Compounds".
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ie50295a026

"Mottled teeth are not only disfiguring in appearance but are so defective in structure and strength that they often have to be replaced? by false teeth? at an early age."

When did this fact change? This was known back in the 1930's.

H. Trendley Dean was the father of fluoridation. To paraphrase Dean's findings, "As children's teeth disintegrate, they may have fewer cavities". Trendley Dean admitted under oath on? a witness stand that his early data gave ZERO evidence that increasing fluoride concentration in the water supply reduced tooth decay.

I just don't understand why dentists recommend a substance that can cause a loss of teeth in adulthood to protect teeth. It just isn't logical. See PubMed:
"[Fluorine as a factor in premature aging]. "
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16892576

"Dental fluorosis during tooth growth and loss of dentition (tooth loss) in adulthood are two consequences of chronic intoxication with fluorine compounds."

Oops, that above link to the Lancet was broken.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422(13)70278-3/abstract

My kids also drink bottled water at home. My dentist recommended fluoride drops. The pediatrician agreed, but neither of them knew of a preparation that does not also include a multivitamin. I did my own research using a drug database and the pediatrician wrote a script for that. It is supposed to be administered daily, but I am afraid of damaging the kids' teeth and brains with a too-high dose, so I just give it to them maybe twice a week. They also use fluoride toothpaste.

The tap water where we live in DC tastes vile. For that reason, and because of the heightened lead content a few years ago, I don't trust it. I would do a house-wide reverse osmosis filter if I had time and knew we'd be living here a while, but I don't think the standard Brita filters are effective enough.

Autism link?
From the Lancet Medical Journal, March 2014
"Neurobehavioural effects of developmental toxicity"
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422(13)70278-3/fulltext#article_upsell

"Neurodevelopmental disabilities, including autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia, and other cognitive impairments, affect millions of children worldwide, and some diagnoses seem to be increasing in frequency. Industrial chemicals that injure the developing brain are among the known causes for this rise in prevalence. Since 2006, epidemiological studies have documented six additional developmental neurotoxicants—manganese, FLUORIDE, chlorpyrifos...

To control the pandemic of developmental neurotoxicity, we propose a global prevention strategy."

Given all the fluoride-based pesticides used on foods in the USA, why are cities fluoridating tap water? All these fluoride ions are bio accumulating in the body from all sources. Why do they want it in tap water too? Where's the scientific lab work done on the target population proving they are somehow deficient in fluoride ions? Where's that science? It doesn't exist. It's not based on science. It's based on profit.

Fluoride-based pesticides used on foods include:
Cryolite
Sodium Fluoride
Sulfuryl Fluoride

In 2004 and 2005, EPA approved the registration of sulfuryl fluoride as a pesticide to be used to kill insects in harvested and processed foods such as cereal grains, dried fruits, tree nuts, cocoa beans, coffee beans, and insect infestations in food handling and processing facilities.

The pesticide breaks down into fluoride, whose residues can contaminate food. Over-exposure to fluoride can be toxic, causing dental fluorosis (mottling and loss of tooth enamel) and skeletal fluorosis (joint pain, stiffness and bone fractures).

Cryolite is actually sodium aluminum fluoride... This sodium aluminum fluoride is especially effective at killing bugs, It's also very sticky, so when they spray it, it's more likely to stick on your produce. Iceberg lettuce can now be laced with a startling 180 parts per million (ppm) of fluoride - 180 times higher than the `recommended' water fluoridation level. Black tea is also high in fluoride.

*Citrus fruits are actually allowed to contain 95 ppm's of sodium fluoride.

*Potatoes can have as much as 22 ppm's on the outside, and 2 ppm inside.

*Raisins are allowed 55 ppm's.

You can't cook fluoride out and it doesn't evaporate. And there is no shortage of fluoride in America.

Fluoride a bio accumulative rat poison. Even Harold Hodge knew they were using a rat poison.

"Appointed initially in biochemistry, Hodge pursued dental research including the toxicity of fluoride, as there was a huge stigma against using fluoride for the public health. (It was, after all, a RAT POISON.) "

http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/content/53/2/157.full

And we allow our children to bathe, shower, and swim in this stuff.

Anonymous wrote:Correction on above post. Fluoride cannot be cooked OUT of the water. It does not evaporate. All our foods and beverages are now contaminated with it. It's just not required to be labeled.

Already, crazy. Fluoride is a conspiracy and every pubic health official is in on it, we get it.

Correction on above post. Fluoride cannot be cooked OUT of the water. It does not evaporate. All our foods and beverages are now contaminated with it. It's just not required to be labeled.

Fluoride cannot be cooked nor does it evaporate. Any manufacturer that creates a food or beverage using fluoridated water will have fluoride in the end product. Cooking with fluoridated water actually concentrates the fluoride. Currently 74% of the USA has artificially fluoridated water. You can be guaranteed that there is fluoride in all your foods and beverages. It just isn't required to be labeled. They use fluoride pesticides on all our foods in much higher amounts than is allowed in tap water. So you're getting this fluoride-based pesticide residue every time you eat food. No one in the USA is deprived of fluoride.

Anonymous wrote:Do you use a fluoride toothpaste? AAP (or is it the ADA...? probably) is now recommending a tiny tiny amount of fluoride toothpaste as soon as you start brushing, even though you know they won't spit it out.

But you should also move to tap water. It's much better for the environment (even if you get those big jugs, which have to be trucked to the distributor, trucked to the store/warehouse, trucked to your house, etc.). Tap water is much more highly regulated than bottled water. I realize there can/have been uncertainties with tap water, but I trust it more than bottled water. Also, if you get a filter, many of them filter out impurities but leave in the fluoride.

+1

Filtered tap water (with a good, multi-stage filter) is loads safer than unregulated bottled water.

Bonus: your child doesn't inherit an environment you helped to ruin with all those plastic bottles.

DH and I drink tap water. Our pediatrician told us that the baby had to have Nursery Water which has fluoride in it and that at 7 months he shouldn't have tap water.

We bought the Nursery Water but I'm really doubting whether it is necessary.

Do you use a fluoride toothpaste? AAP (or is it the ADA...? probably) is now recommending a tiny tiny amount of fluoride toothpaste as soon as you start brushing, even though you know they won't spit it out.

But you should also move to tap water. It's much better for the environment (even if you get those big jugs, which have to be trucked to the distributor, trucked to the store/warehouse, trucked to your house, etc.). Tap water is much more highly regulated than bottled water. I realize there can/have been uncertainties with tap water, but I trust it more than bottled water. Also, if you get a filter, many of them filter out impurities but leave in the fluoride.

I'd be more concerned about all the plasticizers, phthalates, BPA and alkylphenols your kid is absorbing from drinking water almost exclusively from plastic bottles. It must be a ton.

My toddler- 22 months, drinks mostly bottled water. When we are in a restaurant he drinks tap, but at home we have always just drank spring water. My husband is concerned that he isn't getting any fluoride for his teeth and now that I'm thinking of it, he's probably right. Did we screw this up? Should he be taking a supplement? Our pediatrician has never brought this up and I had never thought to ask!