What Happens When a Population Stops Taking in Fluoride in Their Drinking Water? - Neatorama

Fluoride is believed to have protective effects for people’s teeth. However, there are those who are skeptical about the benefits of community water fluoridation, and in 2007, the people of Juneau, Alaska, voted to stop putting fluoride in their drinking water.

Ultimately, it was an expensive move to take out fluoride from the population's drinking water, more costly, in fact than keeping it. For kids below 6 years old, the average number of annual procedures for treating cavities increased by a small number, according to a study published in the journal BMC Oral Health.

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Actually, the study upon which this story is based is scientifically flawed and doesn't prove fluoridation cessation caused more tooth decay. Here's why: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/juneau-fluoridation-study-more-hype-than-evidence-300780280.html
Besides, modern science shows that ingested fluoride, neither a nutrient nor essential for healthy teeth, is ineffective at reducing tooth decay and is harmful to health according to 4800 professionals http://fluorideAlert.org/researchers/professionals-statement/text
Tooth decay crises are occurring in all fluoridated cities, states and countries http://FluorideNews.Blogspot.com

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Ice cream, Mandrake? Children's ice cream!...You know when fluoridation began?...1946. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, and certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works. I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love...Yes, a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I-I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence. I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women, er, women sense my power, and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Mandrake...but I do deny them my essence.

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The real results will be had when children born after the fluoride removal get their permanenet teeth. The basic structure of the enamel starts in the womb. I have three siblings. My older brother and myself were born outside of G-Town, Ill. My younger brother and sister were born there. Older bro and I have a normal amount of cavities. The younger siblings have exactly one cavity between them. The difference is that well water in G-Town is naturally fluoridated at levels five times what most cities put in tap water.

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Children's ice cream and not adult ice cream? That's okay, I already pay big bucks for prescription strength fluoride toothpaste, because my teeth need all the help they can get. But the salt looks promising. We consume it a lot and its pretty universal. We also know how effective adding iodine was.

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Do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, feebly? Children's ice cream!

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