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Sevcan Ozdemir derya@escortnet.com
Istanbul, Istanbul TR - Wed Sep 30 04:39:15 1998
I've just found out that I have a delayed reaction to sodium flouride which is messing up my immune system, causing my allergies to go into overtime. I just now starting to try and find a non-flouride toothpaste. Very interesting page!!
Barbara Anne Bost645@aol.com
Hoffman Estates, IL USA - Thu Sep 17 07:39:32 1998
My son used to swallow his fluoride toothpaste when small, and I didn't realize then the damage it would do. Now at 12, his front teeth are brown and mottled. My dentist says that there is no tried and tested treatment yet available in the UK. Is this true? His brown teeth are starting to be an embarrassment to him. Please E-mail me if you know of anywhere in the UK I can get help.
stephanie.jenkins@history.ox.ac.uk
Stephanie Jenkins stephanie.jenkins@history.ox.ac.uk
Oxford, UK - Thu Mar 5 05:51:25 1998
OUR CITY OF WHITEHORSE HAS FLUORIDATED THE WATER SYSTEM SINCE 1962. THE CITY COUNCIL IS NOT BEING CO-OPERATIVE IN THE GOING AHEAD OF A PUBLIC FORUM TO HEAR BOTH SIDES OF THE FLUORIDE ISSUE. MY DAUGHTER HAS DENTAL FLUOROSIS, WHICH MEANS OF COURSE THAT IT HAS ALSO AFFECTED HER SKELETAL STRUCTURE. THIS MEDICATING OUR WATER SYSTEM WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF EACH AND EVERY PERSON IS HIGHLY IMMORAL AND ILLEGAL, INFRINGING ON MY RIGHTS.
JOANNE BYBLOW JOJABLOWBY@WHITEHORSE.NET
wHITEHORSE, YT CANADA - Wed Feb 4 14:23:24 1998
My 9 year old daughter has bad enamel (hypoplasia) on her 4 permanent molars. All of these teeth have been filled. The dentist says that fluoride will strengthen the enamel on these teeth. I am looking for alternatives to fluoride, herbal, homeopathic or otherwise.
Robin Caldwell RobEscape
USA - Fri Jan 30 15:02:51 1998
There is a logic to flouride softning bones and teeth. The normal hardening agents including calcium and oxygen or carbonate all form two bonds each, which allows chains to form. Flouride can only form one bound; so it breaks the chain wherever it enters.
Gary Novak gnovak@rapidnet.com
USA - Thu Jan 15 23:14:24 1998
I have a 21 month old son that had all his teeth come in at
an early age. His first teeth appeared at 4 months.
I knew something was wrong right away. It wasn't until my
little boy's doctor said he had fluorosis that I had
even a clue of where to begin looking for answers. The
doctor asked me how much water I drank while I was pregnant.
I told him I drank quite a bit. He said it was systemic and
there was too much fluoride in my body while his baby teeth
were forming in the womb. I was so upset...I didn't know.
Right away I started doing my own research on the subject.
Boy..did I find out things on flouride! I have done alot
of research and have since taken him to my family dentist
here in my town and to a pediatric dentist in Bakersfield, CA.
They both said..it's not fluorosis...I said...well then,
what is it...they said well, we don't know. I think they
believe they will go to dentist hell if they say a bad word
about fluoride. I am convinced he does have fluorosis.
I have seen pictures and read alot of information.
His teeth (esp. the front teeth) are pitted and
the enamal is more or less not even formed at all.
It is very bad. I don't know where to turn..they are in fact
his baby teeth and I have since taken him off drinking water
from the tap and he uses a fluoride free toothpaste.
But you even get fluoride in the processed foods you eat...
it's everywhere!! I wish I knew what to do.
Debbie Brenner brenner@ridgecrest.ca.us
USA - Mon Nov 24 16:58:39 1997
I am a dental researher who has studied tooth formation
for over 12 years at the University of Toronto. I have
also studied the effects of fluoride on tooth development
for five years now. I own my own dental office and I
have been treating dental fluorosis for over 14 years.
In 1992, I co-organized a conference for the
Canadian Dental Association which was well attended
by scientists from across the country as well as from the
US. Our recommendations were to reduce the exposure of
children to fluoride tablets, to add warning labels to
toothpaste, and to educate parents so that they make sure
children use only a pea-size amount of fluoridated toothpaste
and to avoid swallowing toothpaste. These preventive
measures should be sufficient to virtually eliminate dental
fluorosis.
Please visit my web site at
www.interlog.com/~hardyl
where you can learn more about our follow-up fluoride
conference. I will update this web site regularly so that
people can educate themselves about the side effects of too
much fluoride ingestion and how to prevent dental fluorosis.
In the meantime, dental fluorosis is very simple to treat.
Ask your dentist to use a fine diamond polishing bur (the
kind used to polish bonded white resin fillings) to simply
polish off the surface defects. Only in the most severe
cases of dental fluorosis (where at least 3 strips of
fluoridated toothpaste are swallowed whole each day for
months at a time) is the defective enamel so thick that
simple polishing won't do the trick. It should only take
5 minutes per tooth. Next time, instead of getting the
usual 'cleaning' at the next recall appointment, ask your
dentist to simply polish away the defective enamel.
It should not cost any more money than a simple cleaning
to remove the defects on the teeth that show when you smile.
If you can't find a dentist who is willing to perform
this task for you, than look for one that will.
If anyone is interested in getting their teeth treated for
free and you happen to be in the Toronto area, please
look me up. All I ask in return is permission to
use pictures for my research on the treatment of
dental fluorosis. Check out the web site for two
pictures of the type of fluorosis I'm talking about.
By the way,if you have dental fluorosis, you have
a mild case of skeletal fluorosis. We don't know
yet if this is good or bad. There are studies that
'suggest' (but don't prove) that fluoridated water
may make elderly people slightly more susceptible
to bone fractures, but may also preserve the jaw bone
that shrinks after you lose your teeth and there is
even some evidence that fluoridated water helps prevent
hearing loss in the elderly.
The consequences of banning fluoride are enormous.
Before fluoride there were many, many deaths that
were the direct result of dental infections. No one
has yet to show how truly beneficial a full set of
natural teeth really are. For example,one could reduce
the risk for colon cancer by increasing your diet with
high fibre foods rich in nutrients such as raw vegetables-
people who have had mutliple restorations, gum disease
and other oral infections are at higher risk for developing
heart disease and pneumonia (many studies to suggest this
have been published). Even some low birth weight babies
have been blamed on oral infections.
The risks and benefits of fluoridating the water supplies
have to be reassessed- no question about that. You also
have a right to drink safe water (I haven't seen one
anti-fluoridationist talk about removing chlorine from
the water supply since this would bring back cholera,
typhoid etc etc. -the benefits far outweigh the risk
for cancer from chlorinated biproducts). But let's not
throw out the baby with the (fluoridated) bath water.
I am not involved in any conspiracy or cover-up. As a
researcher, I'm simply interested in discovery of the
truth surrounding the risks and benefits of fluoride.
Good luck in your own personal searches for the truth.
Dr. Hardy Limeback, BSc, PhD, DDS
Head of Preventive Dentistry
University of Toronto
Dr. Hardy Limeback hlimeback@dental.utoronto.ca, hardyl@interlog.com
Mississauga Ont., Canada - Wed Nov 19 08:43:04 1997
I am so glad to have found a page such as yours. I am a 23 year old college student who has severe dental fluorosis from a supplement that my mother's doctor
advised her to give her new baby girl. This has caused me lifelong problems, and currently I do not even have enough money as a stdent to get my teeth fixed
so I am forced to walk around with half a front tooth due to the loss of one of the previous coating. I have now been informed by our dental coverage that any
effort made to correct this will not be covered, as it is deemed "cosmetic". Too add insult to injury, imagine my anger when I discovered on a trip to my grocery
store that the product is still on the market, and has simply had the advisory on it forcefully changed by action groups, from being advised to baby's to "for children 3 years old and up".
There is very little information on fluoride on Canadian sites, and I would be delighted if people could email me of any info they posess, as I would like to take up
the cause up here, Thanks!
Kiera Laborge kiera_laborge@bc.sympatico.ca
Kamloops, BC Canada - Tue Nov 11 17:48:28 1997
I enjoyed your site. I am helping my wife research for a paper she is writing on Fluoride. She is soon to complete her 1st year of dental hygiene school in Gainesville, GA. Keep up the good work. Bill
Bill Bowen Bowen@hotmail.com
Windsor, GA USA - Sun Feb 23 14:27:34 1997