Readers Respond: Do You Think Fluoride Should be Added to Public Drinking Water?

Responses: 12

Do you think fluoride should be added to public drinking water?

In areas where fluoride does not occur naturally, calibrated amounts of fluoride is added to the public drinking water. Research has shown that adding fluoride to public drinking water may reduce the rate of tooth decay by 50%. While most dental organizations support and advocate the addition of fluoride to public drinking water, there are opponents that feel fluoride should not be added public drinking water.

What are your thoughts? Do you support the addition of fluoride to public drinking water? Share your opinion on fluoride here.

Think!

I believe fluoride should be added. The reasoning is that although unnatural, the food we eat is too (battery farms/pesticides etc) are used frequently. Also, by incorporating fluoride within the diet has proved from a young age to make the teeth rounded rather then grooved, reducing surface area for bacteria to attach and cause decay!

—Guest Miss Patel

Fluoride Shoved Down Our Throats

Anyone who advocates that everyone else should be forced to ingest fluoride just because they want to is little other than a dictator. People need to learn to defend their freedom especially when it comes to others wanting to force things into their mouths or bloodstream. There has never been proof that those in fluoridated areas had better teeth than those who didn't. Look around you. Everyone in your fluoride-drinking area will have a mouthful of cavities. Worse yet, those in fluoridated areas will have brittle teeth that will break easily after they turn 50. Teeth were meant by nature to be somewhat supple -- not hard and brittle as glass (along with your bones which will also be brittle in old age.) We get fluoride from so many foods and medicines today we are at far more risk of severe poisoning than underdose. See the many ways in which we are exposed to fluoride. You may be surprised. http://www.change-it.biz/water/fluoride-exposure.htm

—Guest Sherry

Poisoned Babies

Fluoride if it works at all works topically so there is no reason to put it in drinking water. Every medical and dental organization acknowledges that a baby on a bottle will be grossly overdosed with fluoridated tap water. WHY is it OK to poison poor peoples babies who cannot afford pure water for their infants? For dose and details watch on YouTube presentation by myself and Dr. Thiessen an expert on the Fluoride MCLG committee of the National Research Council.

—Guest David Kennedy, DDS

fluoride

Fluoride should not be added to drinking water as fluoride is present in various food stuffs that we eat. Excess of fluoride can have adverse effects on our body including teeth and bones. So,to get anti carious activity of fluoride, topical form should be used.

—Guest Dr.Aman

yes to flouridation

I see some patient who came from rajasthan(indian state) where naturally fluoride is not available in water. theses people had teeth showing brown pits and stains whish is due to lack of flouridein water. results are tobe caried out for uasage pf flourode decreases upto 50% caries activity by invitro and invivo tests.

—Guest Dr.amit

Know-it-All

Fluoridation and its effects were well known way back in the '50's! "Big Chemical" has been pushing "Big Bucks" into the guys faces for years. The stuff is like radioactive material! This has to stop or we'll all be poisoned!

—Guest TaiChiChuan

Absolutely

I grew up in an area of Southern California which fluoridated the water. I have excellent teeth. My husband, who has a blind hatred of the idea, never got fluoride as a child and his teeth are falling apart, breaking up, and he already has a partial. When he BLINDINGLY - EMPHATICALLY says no to fluoridating the water, I hand him a mirror and ask how his teeth are!

—kimmerlie

Hell No

There is no science that proves INGESTING fluoride makes your teeth stronger. Idiots don't even know why its there in the first place...

—Guest Joby

citizen

Fluorosilicic acid, the chemical used to fluoridate water, is a toxic by product of the fertilizer industry ( provided in this country by Yara UK to United Utilities). I don't want it in my water. It is especially toxic to bottle fed infants, those with low levels of iodine in the diet, and people with compromised kidney function.

—Guest Sheila Taylor

citizen

Fluorosilicic acid, the chemical used to fluoridate water, is a toxic by product of the fertilizer industry ( provided in this country by Yara UK to United Utilities). I don't want it in my water. It is especially toxic to bottle fed infants, those with low levels of iodine in the diet, and people with compromised kidney function.

—Guest Sheila Taylor

Fluoridated water.

No! Stanis Sodium Flouride is the main ingredient in rat poison - because it is a toxin.

—Guest Frederick P. Blume Jr.

Fluoridation Ineffective Harmful

Fluoridation Opposition: Scientific, Respectable & Growing Over 2,600 professionals urge the US Congress to stop water fluoridation until Congressional hearings are conducted, citing scientific evidence that fluoridation, long promoted to fight tooth decay, is ineffective and has serious health risks. See statement: http://www.fluorideaction.org/statement.august.2007.html. Also, eleven Environmental Protection Agency employee unions representing over 7000 environmental and public health professionals called for a moratorium on drinking water fluoridation programs across the country, and have asked EPA management to recognize fluoride as posing a serious risk of causing cancer in people.

—Guest nyscof