Mark Diesendorf, Ph.D. et al.,"New Evidence on Fluoridation," Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health 21 (2): 187-190 (1997)

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Authors

Authors

Mark Diesendorf, BSc, PhD Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

John Colquhoun, BDS, PhD Editor, Fluoride Journal and Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Education University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand

Bruce J. Spittle MB, ChB, FRANZCP Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychological Medicine University of Otago Medical School Dunedin, New Zealand

Douglas N Everingham, MB, BS former Federal Minister for Health 58 Raeside Street Westlake, Q. 4074, Australia

Frederick W Clutterbuck, OStJ, LMSSA, CPH, RCP (London), RCS (England) Medical Practitioner 234 Bay Terrace Wynnum, Q. 4178, Australia

Abstract

A review of recent scientific literature reveals a consistent pattern of evidence - on hip fractures, skeletal fluorosis, the effect of fluoride on bone structure, fluoride levels in bones and osteosarcomas - together pointing to the existence of causal mechanisms by which fluoride damages bones. In addition, there is evidence, accepted by some eminent dental researchers and at least one leading US proponent of fluoridation, that there is negligible benefit from ingesting fluoride, and that any (small) benefit from fluoridation comes from the action of fluoride at the surface of the teeth before fluoridated water is swallowed. Public health authorities in Australia and New Zealand have appeared reluctant to consider openly and frankly the implications of this and earlier scientific evidence which is unfavourable to the continuation of the fluoridation of drinking water supplies.

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