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Scientific Review Shows Fluoridation May Not Prevent Cavities

Fluoride has been added to public water supplies for decades, but does drinking fluoridated water actually prevent tooth decay?

Fluoridation of the public water supply is the only example of the mass drugging of the public without their consent and also with no regard to the dosage.

The Cochrane Collaboration has released a comprehensive review with points that are nearly impossible to dispute. Fluoride when swallowed doesn’t work to prevent cavities and it’s proven to cause harm in the form of dental fluorosis.

The Cochrane Collaboration is considered to be the gold standard in evidence-based reviews and only three studies conducted since 1975 had enough merit to be included. None showed that swallowing fluoride prevents cavities while it was clear that it causes harm (dental fluorosis).
Dental fluorosis is the mottled discoloration on teeth. It is not purely aesthetic. It’s a visible sign that you’ve been exposed to this known developmental neurotoxin at excessive levels.

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Even the “best” studies supporting fluoridation were not considered to be high quality and nearly all were flawed. For instance, failing to control for other contributing factors, such as dietary sources of fluoride aside from tap water, diet and ethnicity.

Earlier this year, even National Geographic suggested that anyone who questions water fluoridation is a conspiracy theorist. It is disappointing that National Geographic would make this statement without any substantial scientific evidence. Please consider that Lancet Neurology is a very prestigious and reputable publication. Just last year Lancet Neurology released a study, authored by a Harvard doctor, among others, that classified fluoride as a developmental neurotoxin.

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The meta-analysis clearly showed that children exposed to fluoride in drinking water, in areas of higher concentrations of fluoride, had a lower IQ, by an average of seven points. The majority of the studies had fluoride levels of less than four milligrams (mg) per liter, which is under the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) allowable level.

Water fluoridation began in 1945, even though in 1943 the Journal of the American Medical Association stated fluorides are general protoplasmic poisons that change the permeability of the cell membrane by certain enzymes.

Fluoride is still being added to two-thirds of US public water supplies, even though it’s been linked to serious health conditions, including damage to your bones, brain, kidneys, thyroid, pineal gland and even, ironically, your teeth.

With all of the latest scientific data, The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Dental Association (ADA), continue to tout water fluoridation as “safe and effective”, even as evidence to the contrary pours in around them.

Eventually, they are going to have to face the facts and admit the truth, unless they are still clinging to the believe that the earth is flat!

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