What do iron, vitamin D, and fluoride have in common? The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics thinks they’re all nutrients and worries that your breastfed baby might not be getting enough of them. Yes, in a recent article for moms, fluoride is described as one of “three nutrients” they believe breastfed babies may need supplements […]
Fluoride
“It Must Spell the End of Fluoridation Worldwide” – New Study Links in Utero Fluoride Exposure to Lower IQ
For those who need even more evidence that dumping fluoride in our water supply in the name of “health” is a really bad idea, we just got more evidence that dumping fluoride in our water supply is a really bad idea. A new study in Environmental Health Perspectives found a link between IQ and exposure […]
The Consequences of Fluoridation
Despite the confident tone of organizations like the ADA and CDC, there’s actually precious little evidence that fluoridation does much to prevent caries – a point reinforced by recent research out of Chile. Chile, note the authors of a paper published earlier this year in the Medical Journal of Chile, “is a pioneer in the […]
Fluoride Is No Silver Bullet Against Decay
An email alert recently brought our attention to some interesting new research on the effects of fluoride. Analyzing NHANES data, its author mapped out trends in caries (tooth decay), oral health related quality of life, and fluorosis among kids. Fluorosis is the result of too much fluoride. The teeth become spottily discolored and pitted. In […]
It Starts with Quitting the Sugar
We’ve said it before: If you want to keep your teeth healthy and whole for a lifetime, you’ve got to limit the sugar. It’s as simple as that. As one 2015 paper put it, Without sugars, the chain of causation is broken, so the disease does not occur. So a new study in the Journal […]
“Very Little Contemporary Evidence” Supporting Water Fluoridation, Says New Review of the Science
Just because you say something is so doesn’t make it true. It doesn’t make mercury dental amalgam safe. It doesn’t make root canal teeth sterile and inert. And it certainly doesn’t make fluoridation an effective practice for preventing caries. The sore lack of evidence supporting fluoridation was brought into the foreground again with last week’s […]
Fluoridation: “Unacceptable Risk with Virtually No Proven Benefit”
You probably noticed the flurry of excitement last week over news items like this one, peppered with language like “new” and “first time since” and the like: But there are a couple problems with this. For one, there’s nothing especially new about it. The Department of Health and Human Services first made this recommendation in […]
Oxalates, Calcium & Fluoride, Oh My!
When the Dallas City Council agreed to consider ending the city’s nearly 50 year old fluoridation policy earlier this year, fluoride’s supporters were up in arms. Insults flew wildly, with pro-fluoride pundits grasping for the usual epithets and creaky Cold War stereotypes. Of course, snark like that is never about engaging in debate or correcting […]