Fluoride-Deja vu all over again

[Guest Peeves]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/group-protest-windsor-fluoridation-wednesday-154906456.html

Same old Same old.

Deja vu all over again ? Seems to me we 've bin thar done thet.

Dentists still endorse fluoride, so how can it be bad for people?

It's naturally in some drinking water as I recall. Who has it ever harmed as an addition?

Heck, iodine is added to salt to prevent goiter.

[fellowtraveller]

Talked to my dentist one day, he told me that fluoride has had a profound effect on his business or rather dentistry in general. The daily bread in the business used to be fillings, extractions, dentures. Extra money came from cosmetic work, orthodontics etec, but often people had no or fewer teeth as they got old.

F;luoride has greatly reduced mouth rot in general and people have far better teeth for far longer. Now the practice is geared more to cosmetics, bridges, and high end high cost vanity procedures with older people much more likely to have their own teeth in good shape.

[GostHacked]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/group-protest-windsor-fluoridation-wednesday-154906456.html

Same old Same old.

Deja vu all over again ? Seems to me we 've bin thar done thet.

Dentists still endorse fluoride, so how can it be bad for people?

It's naturally in some drinking water as I recall. Who has it ever harmed as an addition?

Heck, iodine is added to salt to prevent goiter.

Different types of flouride or derivatives of flouride.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoride

Fluoride is the anion F−, the reduced form of fluorine when as an ion and when bonded to another element. Both organofluorine compounds and inorganic fluorine containing compounds are called fluorides.[2] Fluoride, like other halides, is a monovalent ion (−1 charge). Its compounds often have properties that are distinct relative to other halides. Structurally, and to some extent chemically, the fluoride ion resembles the hydroxide ion. Fluorine-containing compounds range from potent toxins such as sarin to life-saving pharmaceuticals such as efavirenz, and from inert materials such as carbon tetrafluoride to the highly reactive sulfur tetrafluoride. The range of fluorine-containing compounds is vast because fluorine is capable of forming compounds with all the elements except helium and neon.[3][4]

Here is one of the types of flouride used in many of our municipality water systems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_fluoride

The lethal dose for a 70 kg (154 lb) human is estimated at 5–10 g.[6] Sodium fluoride is classed as toxic by both inhalation (of dusts or aerosols) and ingestion.[12] In high enough doses, it has been shown to affect the heart and circulatory system.

In the higher doses used to treat osteoporosis, plain sodium fluoride can cause pain in the legs and incomplete stress fractures when the doses are too high; it also irritates the stomach, sometimes so severely as to cause ulcers. Slow-release and enteric-coated versions of sodium fluoride do not have gastric side effects in any significant way, and have milder and less frequent complications in the bones.[13] In the lower doses used for water fluoridation, the only clear adverse effect is dental fluorosis, which can alter the appearance of children's teeth during tooth development; this is mostly mild and is unlikely to represent any real effect on aesthetic appearance or on public health.[14]

MSDS Sheet for sodium flouride. http://www.sciencelab.com/msds.php?msdsId=9927595

Potential Chronic Health Effects:

CARCINOGENIC EFFECTS: A4 (Not classifiable for human or animal.) by ACGIH, 3 (Not classifiable for human.) by IARC.

MUTAGENIC EFFECTS: Mutagenic for mammalian somatic cells. Mutagenic for bacteria and/or yeast. TERATOGENIC

EFFECTS: Not available. DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICITY: Not available. The substance may be toxic to kidneys, lungs,

the nervous system, heart, gastrointestinal tract, cardiovascular system, bones, teeth. Repeated or prolonged exposure

to the substance can produce target organs damage. Repeated exposure to a highly toxic material may produce general

deterioration of health by an accumulation in one or many human organs.

Studies about the harmful effects of sodium flouride were done in the 60s I think. It's also rat poison.