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originally posted by: 8675309jenny
Here's the really messed up one:
originally posted by: Phage
Dental health is a public health issue. No one is getting rich selling fluoride.
Evidence to back up this claim?
Fluoride was initially used in prison camps in Nazi Germany to make the prisoners more docile and complacent, due to the areas of the brain where fluoride compounds and collects.
No, it isn't.
Fluoride is a bi product of aluminum and fertilizer plants, which accrues in the filters of the smoke stacks.
False. Interest in fluoride in the prevention of caries began when it was found that in regions with naturally fluoridated water there were fewer caries than elsewhere.
However, it was only deemed primarily helpful on the TOPICAL application, NOT ingestion.
THIS
originally posted by: dothedew
Fluoride was initially used in prison camps in Nazi Germany to make the prisoners more docile and complacent, due to the areas of the brain where fluoride compounds and collects.
Fluoride is a bi product of aluminum and fertilizer plants, which accrues in the filters of the smoke stacks. This product was extremely expensive to dispose of,, but due to a"scientific " discovery, by a man whom was funded by the industrial industries, it was found that fluoride was helpful for one teeth.
However, it was only deemed primarily helpful on the TOPICAL application, NOT ingestion. Prolonged ingestion had been linked to countless medical problems, including but not limited to, gestational problems/cancer, ulcers, certain memory/brain ailments, brittle bones, etc.
I went to school for dentistry, and this was a major subject I tackled on my personal time
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: okamitengu
Really. Poor oral hygiene can have devastating consequences and not everyone brushes and flosses after every meal.
in my opinion there is no way cavities is a good enough reason to mass medicate populations
I suppose you think chlorination is bad too? Chlorine is poison in high enough concentrations but it sure does a good job of killing bacteria in drinking water.
originally posted by: AgentShillington
Personal anecdote, do what you will with it.
I grew up in rural Michigan, all of us kids had well water. I was fortunate enough to have an aunt that encouraged my mother to administer fluoride treatments twice a month. Went to my 20th high school reunion last summer and of the people that showed up, I was the one with the most teeth by a -wide- margin.
Just sayin'.
Is natural fluoridation "medication?" Is spring water "medicated" because it contains chemicals that people think are beneficial? Fluoridation is a water treatment which has beneficial health effects, it is not medication.
i fail to see how some peoples issues with dental hygiene means an entire population needs to be medicated.
How about the fact that it works?
there is NO logical reason to treat everyone for something that is this minor in society.
I don't really care what you expect of me. I have as much right to my opinions as you do and the same right to express them here.
i expect more of you than that kind of twisting a thread.. disappointed.