Bulletin #613
July 12, 2006
Dear All,
Sorry for email overload but this one is time sensitive. I have just received the message below from Giles Parent, co-author of a book entitled “Fluoridation: An Autopsy of a Scientific Error”. The book is in French but will soon be translated into English. The co-authors are Pierre Morin, PhD and John Remington Graham and Dr. Hardy Limeback has written an introduction. Giles is 99% certain that he will be able to attend the FAN conference and bring some copies of their book with him, plus his many years experience of fighting off fluoridation in Montreal.
In 2003, Dorval, a town about 20 km from Montreal, stopped fluoridating its water because the equipment had worn out. Now the pro-fluoridation health authorities are claiming that decay in children’s teeth there has dramatically increased. This is being used not just to re- fluoridate Dorval but the whole of Montreal! This is the oldest ploy in the book (first used in Antigo, Wisconsin) and it bears little relation to reality - let alone the absence of fluoride. Needless to say the “study” on which this claim is based has not been peer-reviewed and published in a journal. It screams bias and there is an obvious agenda operating. How is it that people fall for this nonsense?
Giles Parent and Pierre Morin will be debating this issue on CBC radio tomorrow (Thursday July 13 at 1-2 pm EST). Giles gives the details of how to hear this program in his note below. Below that is an article on this issue which appeared in the July 6 issue of the Montreal Gazette and a copy of a letter I sent in in response. I have not heard if they printed this.
By the way I was on the Gary Null show this afternoon and he got so excited about the FAN conference (July 28-August 1, Canton, NY) that he is sending a member of his production staff to attend. It is not too late to register, go to our web page http://www.FluorideAction.Net Please send in your registration form ASAP.
Paul Connett.
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Message from Giles Parent
Good Evening Paul,
It isn’t always easy to have full days of clinical practice and find time to communicate the information around.
Pierre Jean Morin, Ph.D. in experimental medicine and I will be on the program of Radio Noon of CBC tomorrow against Dr Stefen Schwartz, president of the Coalition of Montreal for healthy teeth and director of the Dentistry Department of the Montreal Children Hospital and Dr Michel Levy, of the Montreal Public Health Service. Dr Morin is already in Montreal.
Thanks for your hints and I will personally take care to talk about the conference, particularly because Dr Limeback and you will be there but also so many others that I hold great respect for.
Yours truly
Gilles Parent, n.d.
Time : 13 :00 to 14 :00
Host: Anne Lagace Dowson
Station: 88.5 FM Montreal (You can hear the show directly from your computer)
Show’s name: Radio noon
You can also hear the show after hours (if you have or download (free) Real Player)
You can also hear it direct from your computer, just follow the instructions on the Website:
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Montreal Gazette
Action urged on fluoride
Cavities in children double after additive is removed from water
KATE LUNAU AND ALYCIA AMBROZIAK
The Gazette
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Calls for the introduction of fluoridation in Montreal’s water system have been revived in the wake of a study that shows kindergarten children in Dorval have twice as many cavities as they did when fluoride was added to that city’s drinking water.
Until recently, Dorval children generally had healthier teeth than their Montreal peers, said Michael Levy, dental consultant to the Quebec National Institute of Public Health.
“Children in Dorval now have the same number of cavities as children in similar socio-economic areas of Montreal,” he said, citing recent figures from the CLSC Dorval-Lachine.
After about 50 years of fluoridation, Dorval stopped adding fluoride to its water supply in 2003 because its equipment needed a $400,000 upgrade and the borough was waiting for the go-ahead from the Quebec government, which funds fluoridation. Montreal has never fluoridated its water.
Of about 120 kindergarten children monitored in Dorval in 2003, eight per cent showed signs of severe tooth decay.
By 2004, severe tooth decay among that group had risen to 10 per cent; by 2005, it reached 16 per cent, or twice as high as in 2003.
Levy said when he saw the latest figures, he first checked Dorval’s socio-economic statistics for any big changes that could account for the dramatic rise. Statistically, people from low-income families are more likely to have cavities.
“Dorval has a relatively stable population,” he said. “No population factor can explain the rise in cavities in Dorval. The only explanation is halting the fluoride.”
Levy noted that the World Health Organization advocates the use of fluoride in drinking water as the most effective preventive measure for cavities.
He pointed out that Montreal is the last major North American city to hold out against water fluoridation.
“Montrealers have among the worst teeth in North America.”
Stephane Schwartz is the director of the dental clinic at the Montreal Children’s Hospital. She also is a spokesperson for the Montreal Coalition for Healthy Teeth, a 1,000-member group pushing for fluoridation of the city’s water supply.
“I’m frustrated and angry that we are still having to fight for this,” she said.
Schwartz says fluoride is especially important to young children whose teeth are developing.
“I see the result of this problem at my clinic every day: children yelling, mothers crying, month after month.”
The coalition’s website says water fluoridation costs less than one dollar per person per year, and poses no risk to the environment.
Levy said there are “no known dangers” from water fluoridation, although studies are continuing.
Bernard Larin, spokesperson for the Montreal city council executive committee, said the city has commissioned a report on water fluoridation and will make no decision until the study is complete, probably this fall.
“Specialists on both sides are weighing in on the issue before we make any decision,” he said.
Dorval Mayor Edgar Rouleau said he was in favour of reinstating fluoride in the city’s drinking water and has been waiting for funds from the Quebec government to update the equipment.
“They had confirmed to us that money was available more than a year ago but wanted (to wait for) Montreal to fluoridate their water, as well” so they could pay for both areas at the same time, Rouleau said.
A meeting has been scheduled with officials from Dorval and Montreal, as well as Quebec Health Department representatives. Rouleau said it is to take place in late August or early September.
klunau@thegazette.canwest.com
The Arguments
Against
You can get fluoride in toothpaste, mouthwash and tablets, and applying fluoride directly to the teeth is the most beneficial method.
Too much fluoride will cause mottled teeth.
It might also increase the risk of a fatal bone cancer in young boys and hip fractures in the elderly.
Even though water fluoridation is banned in Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Norway and France, cavity rates have come down there.
From a civil liberties standpoint, it is forced mass medication.
FOR
It reduces tooth decay and the harmful effects claimed by fluoridation’s opponents have not been proven satisfactorily.
Fluoride prevents cavities in two ways: First, it builds strong teeth from the bone out and then it protects the surface of the tooth from bacteria, which can eat away at the tooth’s enamel.
Fluoridation gives protection to children who are vulnerable to tooth decay for cultural or socio-economic reasons. The Canadian Dental Association says the No. 1 risk factor for dental decay is poverty.
The U.S. Centres for Disease Control has declared fluoridation “one of the top 10 public health advances of the past century.”
© The Gazette (Montreal) 2006
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Dear Editor,
Montrealers don’t be fooled by the study which says tooth decay is rising in Dorval (Juy 6). Pointing to some “study” that purports to show that tooth decay is far worse in the community being targeted than anywhere else is the classic tactic used by those who promote fluoridation like some religious crusade.
Key questions to ask: 1) has this “study” been published in a peer-reviewed journal to judge its scientific quality? 2) Do the “authors” have an agenda?
Over the years there have been very few, if any, grade A studies demonstrating that water fluoridation lowers tooth decay. Most of those cited are seriously flawed. Meanwhile, the evidence as published online by the World Health Organization indicates that tooth decay is coming down as fast, if not faster, in non-fluoridated countries (the vast majority) than fluoridated ones, see http://www.fluorideaction.net/health/teeth/caries/who-dmft.html
Meanwhile, a report which has been published (March 22, 2006) is a three year review by the National Research Council (part of the US National Academy of Sciences) entitled “Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA’s Standards.” According to this 450 page review of fluoride’s toxicity, the NRC panel reported that fluoride exposure - at doses at, or uncomfortably close to, the doses many people are getting who live in fluoridated communities - may cause a variety of serious health conditions, ranging from osteosarcoma in male teenagers; arthritis and hip fractures in the elderly, thyroid disorders, and brain damage ranging from lowered IQs in children to dementia in the elderly. Nothing is proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, but there is enough serious evidence to give us pause.
For those of your readers who wish to learn more about this issue I am helping to organize a conference on this issue at St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY (July 29 - 30) which is about a two and half hour drive from Montreal. Speakers will include three panel members from the NRC review and Dr. Jennifer Luke from the UK who showed that fluoride accumulates in the human pineal gland and lowers melatonin production in animals. Full details at http://www.FluorideAction.Net
Dr. Paul Connett,
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry,
St. Lawrence University,
Canton, NY 13617
315-379-9200
Dear All,
Sorry for email overload but this one is time sensitive. I have just received the message below from Giles Parent, co-author of a book entitled “Fluoridation: An Autopsy of a Scientific Error”. The book is in French but will soon be translated into English. The co-authors are Pierre Morin, PhD and John Remington Graham and Dr. Hardy Limeback has written an introduction. Giles is 99% certain that he will be able to attend the FAN conference and bring some copies of their book with him, plus his many years experience of fighting off fluoridation in Montreal.
In 2003, Dorval, a town about 20 km from Montreal, stopped fluoridating its water because the equipment had worn out. Now the pro-fluoridation health authorities are claiming that decay in children’s teeth there has dramatically increased. This is being used not just to re- fluoridate Dorval but the whole of Montreal! This is the oldest ploy in the book (first used in Antigo, Wisconsin) and it bears little relation to reality - let alone the absence of fluoride. Needless to say the “study” on which this claim is based has not been peer-reviewed and published in a journal. It screams bias and there is an obvious agenda operating. How is it that people fall for this nonsense?
Giles Parent and Pierre Morin will be debating this issue on CBC radio tomorrow (Thursday July 13 at 1-2 pm EST). Giles gives the details of how to hear this program in his note below. Below that is an article on this issue which appeared in the July 6 issue of the Montreal Gazette and a copy of a letter I sent in in response. I have not heard if they printed this.
By the way I was on the Gary Null show this afternoon and he got so excited about the FAN conference (July 28-August 1, Canton, NY) that he is sending a member of his production staff to attend. It is not too late to register, go to our web page http://www.FluorideAction.Net Please send in your registration form ASAP.
Paul Connett.
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Message from Giles Parent
Good Evening Paul,
It isn’t always easy to have full days of clinical practice and find time to communicate the information around.
Pierre Jean Morin, Ph.D. in experimental medicine and I will be on the program of Radio Noon of CBC tomorrow against Dr Stefen Schwartz, president of the Coalition of Montreal for healthy teeth and director of the Dentistry Department of the Montreal Children Hospital and Dr Michel Levy, of the Montreal Public Health Service. Dr Morin is already in Montreal.
Thanks for your hints and I will personally take care to talk about the conference, particularly because Dr Limeback and you will be there but also so many others that I hold great respect for.
Yours truly
Gilles Parent, n.d.
Time : 13 :00 to 14 :00
Host: Anne Lagace Dowson
Station: 88.5 FM Montreal (You can hear the show directly from your computer)
Show’s name: Radio noon
You can also hear the show after hours (if you have or download (free) Real Player)
You can also hear it direct from your computer, just follow the instructions on the Website:
———————————————————————————
Montreal Gazette
Action urged on fluoride
Cavities in children double after additive is removed from water
KATE LUNAU AND ALYCIA AMBROZIAK
The Gazette
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Calls for the introduction of fluoridation in Montreal’s water system have been revived in the wake of a study that shows kindergarten children in Dorval have twice as many cavities as they did when fluoride was added to that city’s drinking water.
Until recently, Dorval children generally had healthier teeth than their Montreal peers, said Michael Levy, dental consultant to the Quebec National Institute of Public Health.
“Children in Dorval now have the same number of cavities as children in similar socio-economic areas of Montreal,” he said, citing recent figures from the CLSC Dorval-Lachine.
After about 50 years of fluoridation, Dorval stopped adding fluoride to its water supply in 2003 because its equipment needed a $400,000 upgrade and the borough was waiting for the go-ahead from the Quebec government, which funds fluoridation. Montreal has never fluoridated its water.
Of about 120 kindergarten children monitored in Dorval in 2003, eight per cent showed signs of severe tooth decay.
By 2004, severe tooth decay among that group had risen to 10 per cent; by 2005, it reached 16 per cent, or twice as high as in 2003.
Levy said when he saw the latest figures, he first checked Dorval’s socio-economic statistics for any big changes that could account for the dramatic rise. Statistically, people from low-income families are more likely to have cavities.
“Dorval has a relatively stable population,” he said. “No population factor can explain the rise in cavities in Dorval. The only explanation is halting the fluoride.”
Levy noted that the World Health Organization advocates the use of fluoride in drinking water as the most effective preventive measure for cavities.
He pointed out that Montreal is the last major North American city to hold out against water fluoridation.
“Montrealers have among the worst teeth in North America.”
Stephane Schwartz is the director of the dental clinic at the Montreal Children’s Hospital. She also is a spokesperson for the Montreal Coalition for Healthy Teeth, a 1,000-member group pushing for fluoridation of the city’s water supply.
“I’m frustrated and angry that we are still having to fight for this,” she said.
Schwartz says fluoride is especially important to young children whose teeth are developing.
“I see the result of this problem at my clinic every day: children yelling, mothers crying, month after month.”
The coalition’s website says water fluoridation costs less than one dollar per person per year, and poses no risk to the environment.
Levy said there are “no known dangers” from water fluoridation, although studies are continuing.
Bernard Larin, spokesperson for the Montreal city council executive committee, said the city has commissioned a report on water fluoridation and will make no decision until the study is complete, probably this fall.
“Specialists on both sides are weighing in on the issue before we make any decision,” he said.
Dorval Mayor Edgar Rouleau said he was in favour of reinstating fluoride in the city’s drinking water and has been waiting for funds from the Quebec government to update the equipment.
“They had confirmed to us that money was available more than a year ago but wanted (to wait for) Montreal to fluoridate their water, as well” so they could pay for both areas at the same time, Rouleau said.
A meeting has been scheduled with officials from Dorval and Montreal, as well as Quebec Health Department representatives. Rouleau said it is to take place in late August or early September.
klunau@thegazette.canwest.com
The Arguments
Against
You can get fluoride in toothpaste, mouthwash and tablets, and applying fluoride directly to the teeth is the most beneficial method.
Too much fluoride will cause mottled teeth.
It might also increase the risk of a fatal bone cancer in young boys and hip fractures in the elderly.
Even though water fluoridation is banned in Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Norway and France, cavity rates have come down there.
From a civil liberties standpoint, it is forced mass medication.
FOR
It reduces tooth decay and the harmful effects claimed by fluoridation’s opponents have not been proven satisfactorily.
Fluoride prevents cavities in two ways: First, it builds strong teeth from the bone out and then it protects the surface of the tooth from bacteria, which can eat away at the tooth’s enamel.
Fluoridation gives protection to children who are vulnerable to tooth decay for cultural or socio-economic reasons. The Canadian Dental Association says the No. 1 risk factor for dental decay is poverty.
The U.S. Centres for Disease Control has declared fluoridation “one of the top 10 public health advances of the past century.”
© The Gazette (Montreal) 2006
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Dear Editor,
Montrealers don’t be fooled by the study which says tooth decay is rising in Dorval (Juy 6). Pointing to some “study” that purports to show that tooth decay is far worse in the community being targeted than anywhere else is the classic tactic used by those who promote fluoridation like some religious crusade.
Key questions to ask: 1) has this “study” been published in a peer-reviewed journal to judge its scientific quality? 2) Do the “authors” have an agenda?
Over the years there have been very few, if any, grade A studies demonstrating that water fluoridation lowers tooth decay. Most of those cited are seriously flawed. Meanwhile, the evidence as published online by the World Health Organization indicates that tooth decay is coming down as fast, if not faster, in non-fluoridated countries (the vast majority) than fluoridated ones, see http://www.fluorideaction.net/health/teeth/caries/who-dmft.html
Meanwhile, a report which has been published (March 22, 2006) is a three year review by the National Research Council (part of the US National Academy of Sciences) entitled “Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA’s Standards.” According to this 450 page review of fluoride’s toxicity, the NRC panel reported that fluoride exposure - at doses at, or uncomfortably close to, the doses many people are getting who live in fluoridated communities - may cause a variety of serious health conditions, ranging from osteosarcoma in male teenagers; arthritis and hip fractures in the elderly, thyroid disorders, and brain damage ranging from lowered IQs in children to dementia in the elderly. Nothing is proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, but there is enough serious evidence to give us pause.
For those of your readers who wish to learn more about this issue I am helping to organize a conference on this issue at St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY (July 29 - 30) which is about a two and half hour drive from Montreal. Speakers will include three panel members from the NRC review and Dr. Jennifer Luke from the UK who showed that fluoride accumulates in the human pineal gland and lowers melatonin production in animals. Full details at http://www.FluorideAction.Net
Dr. Paul Connett,
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry,
St. Lawrence University,
Canton, NY 13617
315-379-9200
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