Dentists Support Fluoridated Water: Survey

Fluoridate Our Water, Say the Majority of DentistsWater Fluoridation Dental Survey Results

In our most recent survey, we asked dentists if they are in favor of water fluoridation. The clear majority (85%) support fluoridation, with many citing it as one of the top 10 public health innovations of the 20th century. The minority (15%) voiced concerns about the possible side effects of mass medication.

“There is a reason it was rated one of the top ten health policies of the century,” said one orthodontist. “Fluoride in excess is linked to several health problems,” cautioned a prosthodontist. “It is forced medication of questionable benefit,” said another dentist.

One dentist shared his anecdotal evidence in support of fluoridation. “I have had a practice in a small city for 25 years that does not have water fluoridation. This location is surrounded by many towns that are fluoridated. There is a drastically higher level of caries in children of the non-fluoridated city than the surrounding towns.”

Read the complete water fluoridation survey results

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  • LaneW

    “(85%) support fluoridation, with many citing it as one of the top 10 public health innovations of the 20th century”

    Polly want a cracker (from the ADA and CDC)
    We are in the 21 century if you have not notice and a large report that can out last spring stating health risk from water fluoridation. Read the NRC report and take some time and educate yourselves rather than repeating what you have been Told.
    Come on, you supposed to be Educated health care givers.

  • DaveW

    Fluoridation has been a benefit to childrens oral health. I agree that if people don’t want it they shouldn’t have to have it. But then they shouldn’t get any tax money to fix their childrens teeth when they get decay. You can’t have it both ways.

  • LaneW

    Delta Dental uses my insurance money to Pay for the startup cost for the injection of Hydrofluorosilicic acid in to my drinking water to the tune of millions Nation wide.
    Why can’t they use that money to give care directly to how needs it or better reimbursement to dentist that provide care?

  • http://www.sayno2fluoride.blogspot.com Brian Jackson

    Its a great pity that dentists dont apparently read or study toxicology. Those who have bothered to do usually jump ship and oppose fluoriation. Its now becoming apparent that it does not even reduce tooth decay but actually increases it. Dental fluorosis is the least important of the many very serious problems now linked to fluoride intake but it is difficult to treat and requires in most cases very expensive private dental treatment. There is no modern evidence showing that fluoridation of water supplies is either safe or effective and the song sheet which those who make much money from fluoride sing from dates from the 1940s and with or without fluoridation tooth decay has dramatically declined in both Europe and the USA. Tasmania in Australia has been fluoridated for forty years and has the worst tooth decay problem in the Country. Both the British and American Dental Association are donkeys years behind the time, and are both living and promoting a lie. For a fraction of the cost of promoting and fluoridating water supplies, the small minority who seriously need dental treatment can be targeted by providing brushes and toothpaste and those who really think they need fluoride can buy fluoride toothpaste, or drink more tea and white grape juice which is naturally polluted with fluoride. The only conspiracy as usual, about fluoride is one designed to make money for a vested interest minority whilst others like sheep follow on bleating the mantra “safe and effective, safe and effective when its clearly neither if you bother to check the research, You can start by visiting the Fluoride Action Network and then make up your minds when you are better informed. Say No To Fluoride Now, and help put an end to Truth Decay.

  • http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof nyscof

    USA Today lists air emissions potentially harming our children. Hydrogen fluoride is one of them

    Fluoridation puts children at increased risk of fluoride toxicity

    Fluoride air emissions endanger humans and have killed crops and farm animals. As a result, it’s a law to limit smokestack fluoride emissions. That makes sense. But does it make sense to take the captured fluoride and get rid of it in public drinking water supplies so as to disperse the toxic burden among a greater number of people. Sounds dreadful and unlawful. Actually, that’s fluoridation. Pharmaceutical grade fluoride is NOT being put into public water supplies.

    The phosphate fertilizer waste fluoride, in the form of silicofluorides, is collected in smokestack scrubbers and then, instead of having to pay for it to be transported to hazardous waste dumps at their own expense, they sell it to fluoridating communities all over the USA. These silicofluorides are not purified and are allowed to contain trace amounts of lead, arsenic, mercury and other toxins. The fluoride now in the water is just as toxic and hazardous as it was when it was captured in the smokestack. See: http://www.FluorideAction.net/health

  • Jack Cook

    Frankly, after studying the issue for over a year now, and since my family switched to distilled water, I must vote NO on fluoridation or fluoride treatments of any kind. Not only have my teeth and health improved significantly in the last year, about 25 years of “mysterious” symptoms that my doctors could not identify simply went away within one week. We don’t use fluoride toothpaste either. According to my dentist, who is anti-fluoride as well, my teeth are just fine without it (they have even become stronger and whiter). If you bother to do some simple research on the history of how this practice actually got its start, you’d be appalled at how scientists and the public were so easily taken in by propaganda, bad science, and big money commercial advertising. Most of Europe has discontinued fluoridation, and we haven’t seen any tremendous jump in bad tooth health because of it. In fact, it is illegal in such places as Germany and Switzerland to add this chemical to public waters. It amounts to mass medication without consent or prescription by a licensed medical practitioner and without individually measured dose. That kind of action is illegal in every state in our country. Please help us stop this outdated and dangerous practice.

  • http://www.thevisibledentist.com/ The Visible Dentist

    There is no science to support the health benefits of water fluoridation, only propaganda and a faithful following similar to the mercury and aspartame paradoxes.

    Funny how an entire nation can become acclimated to just about any atrocity.

    John Barremore
    Houston, TX

  • http://yahoo rozeta

    can me know what’s the general rules of dental patient management which doctors can use ? thank’s alot

  • THE SCIENCE SAYS “NO!”

    I was raised in a fluoridated area, and I have 9 cavities. Fluoridated water has nothing to do with dental caries reduction. Yes, dental caries have decreased drastically in the last 50 years…but if you do your RESEARCH you will find that dental caries have dropped across the world at the same rate! It is about better dental care and diet. Period. Stop the insanity! Fluoride in the drinking water is neither SAFE nor EFFECTIVE.

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