Dentists Spread False Fluoridation Data - 2007 FAN News Release

ADA Distributing Misleading Information on Two Federal Fluoride Reports

NEW YORK, Aug. 21, 2007 -  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Fluoride Action
Network (FAN) charges the American Dental Association (ADA) with
circulating false and misleading information in its newsletter (8/15)
that expressed concern over professional "opposition to community water
fluoridation."(1)


ADA misrepresented important findings in the 2006 National
Research Council (NRC)(2) report and trivialized the significance of the dental
fluorosis epidemic afflicting American children (CDC, 2005).


"We don't understand why the ADA won't deal honestly with the
science that caused 600 professionals to urge fluoridation be ended,"(3) says
Paul Connett, PhD, FAN Director.


The ADA says the NRC report is not relevant to water fluoridation,
but, according to its website, made this statement before it had reviewed
the report. In March, 2006 it wrote: "Additional information will appear
on ADA.org after the report has been reviewed"(4) but no further
information has appeared.


Connett says, "The ADA assessment is totally superficial, in
contrast to statements from three NRC panel members who wrote important
chapters in the report."


Kathleen Thiessen, PhD says, "I have become increasingly convinced
that deliberate exposure of a large fraction of the U.S. population ... to
uncontrolled and unmonitored intake of fluoride in their drinking
water is unwise at best, and probably harmful to a substantial number of
people."(5)


Hardy Limeback, PhD, DDS, writes, " ... it is obvious that the
benefit of fluoridation is next to nil. ... I am even more convinced that
fluoride should be banned as a systemic drug (which includes water
fluoridation) ..."(6)


Robert L. Isaacson, PhD adds, "The health of the entire country is
at risk as long as fluoridation of the drinking water remains
uncurbed."(6)


The ADA claims that dental fluorosis, which now impacts 32% of
American children, is "so slight that only trained professionals can notice
it."


However, very mild fluorosis affects up to 25% of tooth surfaces and
mild up to 50%(7). The CDC reports that 4% of children have moderate or
severe fluorosis(8), in which all tooth surfaces are affected, frequently
with brown staining and sometimes pitting.


"These categories are easy to identify and can result in
psychological harm," says Connett. 


References:
(1)
http://www.ada.org/prof/resources/pubs/adanews/adanewsarticle.asp?articleid=2625

(2) http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11571

(3) http://www.fluoridealert.org/statement.august.2007.html

(4) http://www.ada.org/prof/resources/topics/fluoride_report_response.pdf

(5) http://www.fluoridealert.org/thiessen-letter.pdf

(6) http://www.fluorideaction.org/statement.quotes.aug.2007.pdf

(7) http://www.ada.org/public/topics/fluoride/facts/fluoridation_facts.pdf

(8) http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/figures/s403a1t23.gif


SOURCE Fluoride Action Network http://www.FluorideAlert.Org

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