How Blatant Can The Lies And Deception Be?

By Dano, edited by BillZimm Sept 4, 2012

The video is no longer available.  But it does not escape us that Dr. Linda Lucas of San Diego Dental Society said on camera and with a straight face that there have been no credible scientific studies regarding water fluoridation and health.  Here are some of the unfounded quotes of Dr. Lucas’ interview on KUSI News.  “Well it’s scientifically proven to prevent and control tooth decay, which we know is a major problem and it’s a problem with all age populations not just with kids.”    “It’s essential for healthy bones and healthy teeth.”

When interviewer Dan Plante asked about fluoride causing health risks including cancer and bone problems Dr. Lucas’ response was amazingly unfounded.  “Well, there is no scientific research to support that data, as a matter of fact, fluoride helps tissue like bones and teeth absorb calcium and absorb the essential minerals they need for health.”  Dr. Lucas hopes that once the fluoride goes into our water that San Diegans drinking it will be going to the dentist less often. (why would anyone want to slow business in this country?  This is still America isn’t it?)  She also claims the fluoridated water will show a significant decline in tooth decay.

In the interview Dan Plante and Dr. Lucas cavalierly mention that society is consuming mass quantities of fluoride anyway and that toothpaste has 1,000 times more fluoride then a glass of fluoridated tap water.  Well, the last time I checked, a box of toothpaste had a warning label on it to call poison control center immediately if swallowed.  So, the pro-fluoride camp want us to think we are getting mass amounts ingested from toothpaste, so it’s OK to ingest it in water too.  This is a total misconception because the ADA tells the public not to swallow fluoride in toothpaste and to only use a pea size amount.  Within the last few years the CDC started warning mothers not to use fluoridated water in baby formula, so Dr. Lucas is contradicting herself over and over but still wants us to believe that water fluoridation is a safe and researched practice.  The deception continues with her saying that ingested fluoride works as a topical supplement.   Should I laugh now, or later?   It’s been proven by the NRC that saliva levels of ingested fluoride are too low to help tooth decay and Dr. Lucas claims otherwise with out citing one legitimate study.  Check out the video for yourself if you dare.  PLEASE make a comment about this absurd pro-fluoride propagandist.  Oh and feel free to call her at the San Diego branch of the American Dental Association.  We could not find the number.  If you do please share it with us.  [email protected]

Public water fluoridation is safe and effective

Jan. 29 — To the Editor:

Community water fluoridation, considered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to be one of the top 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century, has been shown to be a safe, cost-effective method of improving oral and overall health by preventing tooth decay.

Tooth decay, a progressive disease throughout the life cycle, is the single most common chronic childhood disease. Untreated decay can lead to pain, swelling and infection with the risk of death, destruction of teeth, and tissue damage resulting in illness, difficulty eating, problems at school or work, high dental expenses for repair, or costly emergency room services.

Decay is highly preventable. Nationally, we have over 65 years experience in public health efforts effectively reducing decay through community water fluoridation.

Fluoride, a naturally-occurring mineral found throughout the country in local water supplies, has repeatedly been found to be an easily adjusted, low-cost way of reducing the incidence and severity of tooth decay.

The American Dental Association reports that the cost of lifetime water fluoridation for an individual is less than the cost of a single dental filling.

Fluoride’s proven effectiveness in reducing tooth decay has prompted many manufacturers to add fluoride to such products as toothpaste, mouth rinse, and some bottled waters. As a result, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recently announced a reduction in the recommended level for community water fluoridation.

Adjustment of this level is a modern refinement, not a rebuke, of the established science.

A.J. “Skip” Homicz, DDS, dental director at the Families First Health and Support Center in Portsmouth, states, “Fluoridation remains the single most effective public health measure to prevent tooth decay.

“I am pleased that Health and Human Services has affirmed the benefits of fluoridation. The message to the public is that fluoridation is safe, effective and should continue.”

The New Hampshire Oral Health Coalition membership, recognizing the long-standing evidence supporting the importance of fluoride as an effective preventive measure, continues to support community water fluoridation adjusted to levels recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the coalition.

Gail T. Brown, Esq., MSW Policy director
New Hampshire Oral Health Coalition

ADA Fluoride & Fluoridation Page – Read the Misconceptions and Pro-fluoride Propaganda

Below is rebuttal by Richard Sauerheber, PhD

The title itself, of the New Hampshire anecdotal opinion article, is fabrication:
“Public Water Fluoridation is Safe and Effective.”

What?  This statement should not be made in public if it is told as though it were true.  Dominic Smith was killed with city water drugged with fluoride ion from sodium fluoride water treated to 1 ppm (New England Journal of Medicine, 1994).  The poisoning event was not intentional, but was due to the fact that fluoride promoters still do not understand the chemical nature of the fluoride ion, that in fresh water devoid of calcium the ion corrodes feeding lines.  This led to high levels in the water sufficient to poison 300 people, sending them to the clinic with one death due to the fact that fluoride at 3 ppm in the blood attacks calcium ion and causes heart block.  This also happened in Maryland during a fluoride accidental overfeed that killed patients on a renal dialysis unit.  Today’s electronic feeding systems are very expensive to help avoid acute toxicity of this form, but it is far better and cheaper to brush your teeth after eating sugar and not inject or purchase the toxic corrosives in the first place.  In the absence of such overfeeds (they are not accidents but rather are negligence), fluoride at best causes slight anemia, and the 4,000 ppm fluoride residing permanently in the bony skeleton would be considered ‘safe’ perhaps in individuals who did not need to stress bone in the workplace and had unusually good diets with calcium and vitamin D to help minimize the known effects of fluoride on inducing bone cell replication and calcium homeostasis.

Effective?  Fluoride from drinking water assimilates to 0.2 ppm in blood and then filters into saliva at 0.02 ppm which not only does not decrease cavities, it can not.  The CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Aug 17, 2001 reported fluoride acts topically (i.e. from toothpaste which is 1,500 ppm), not from the blood where it only causes abnormal enamel depending on exposure. Spending hundreds of millions of dollars every 12 months throughout the U.S. to fluoride-permeate over 100 million Americans’ blood and organs in a futile attempt to raise saliva fluoride to 0.02 ppm to ‘fight’ a cavity is not what may be referred to as ‘effective’.  Cleaning teeth is effective, and antibacterial agents such as peroxide are far more effective and inexpensive and do not require rail cars of rubber lined fluosilicic acid tanks to be hauled across the country to drug peoples’ blood to fight a cavity.