The water fluoridation controversy stems from political, ethical, economic, and health concerns regarding the fluoridation of public water supplies. It has evolved from conspiracy theories in the 1940s and 50s to a science-based debate today. The first public proposal to fluoridate US water supplies was made by a doctor or dentist, not a dentist. The fluoride issue has moved from conspiracy theories to today’s science-based debate.
The Nazis put fluoride in water to pacify Jews during World War II, and a local resident told members of the Pinellas County Commission about it. Opponents objected to “rat poison” being added to their water supply and claimed that the government had no control over fluoride. In 1949, Canadian Minister of National Health and Welfare Paul Martin funded research into sodium fluoride to dispel myths surrounding fluoride.
Over the past 75 years, health authorities have declared that community water fluoridation is safe for over 400 million people worldwide. However, five decades later, dental science discovered and ultimately revolutionized preventive medicine. Since the 1940s, Americans have been swallowing fluoride with their drinking water. Conspiracy theorists have railed for seven decades against fluoride, suggesting it was a government mind-control trick. A recent study from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences connects fluoride in drinking water with higher levels of dental caries.
Despite thousands of studies showing fluoridation prevents cavities, 74 cities have voted to remove fluoride from their drinking water. The fluoridation era began in America on January 25, 1945, when municipal workers at Grand Rapids, Michigan, began using fluoridated toothpastes.
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It should be a personal choice to consume fluoride. If the government is so concerned about our teeth why don’t they subsidize dental care?why do most health insurance plans not cover dental work and why does Medicare not cover dental care? In Europe you can buy products that have fluoride in them and it is a choice. They do not put it in the water and therefore into everyone’s bodies whether they like it or not as they do in most of the US. There are negative physical and mental side effects.
Colorado Springs had natural calcium fluoride in the water. Early researchers were unaware that calcium was a tooth-required nutrient. They thought that, since fluoride was the tooth-discoloring culprit, it must have been the fluoride that made the teeth more decay-resistant. Now that kids are fluoride overdosed and calcium deficient, tooth decay is an epidemic in the US. Ten years after Kingston started adding fluoride into the water supply (1945-55), health examiners found more cortical bone defects, anemia and early puberty in school children who lived in fluoridated Newburgh NY as compared to non-fluoridated Kingston NY. Fifty years later Newburgh;s children had more tooth decay and dental fluorosis than never fluoridation Kingston NY
Natural occurring fluoride is different from man made toxic fluoride from the aluminium companies,look on the back of your toothpaste packet what does it say,spit out do not swallow,well it’s safe isn’t it? Plus in the water everyone is getting different doses,some ppl drink pure tap water and a lot of it,some ppl drink none and get fresh spring water or bore water,well water,man made fluoride shouldn’t be in our water supply ever. If you want fluoride then let them make fluoride tablets for those stupid enough to take them.